>>This should be fertile ground for topics for PhD students. >>We still have PhD students, yes? yes, but no faculty to advise them - see below of course, if we fixed the multicast and the mbone (or used akamai/inktomi/idigital island, foobarbaz.com) we'd be able to leverage the internet to advise 75 phds simulataneously but first we have to fix the bandwidth and multicast and may be that is the phd that is really needed >>We're entering a recession, right? Ostermann was wrong, right? >>http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm98/Ostermann/slide2.html he was right... but the axes need some adjustment >>We _do_ need standards in this area. "i have my standards - of course, for a big enough fee, i will happily change them" to paraphrase groucho... j. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:14:02 -0500 From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: COLLEGES FACE A SHORTAGE OF FACULTY MEMBERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: Edupage, March 28, 2001 >The number of computer-science doctoral graduates continues to >fall, according to a new report from the Computer Research >Association. About 880 computer-science doctoral degrees were >awarded last year, a decline from the previous year's total of >about 950. In 1992, over 1,100 computer-science doctoral degrees >were given. The main reason for the decline, said Penn State >University computer-science professor and report co-author Mary >Jane Irwin, is the number of potential doctoral students who >instead choose to enter industry because the salaries are so >attractive. Irwin has noticed this trend is especially strong >among foreign nationals coming to U.S. institutions. She said >foreign students "apply to a Ph.D. program, come to the U.S., >and find out that there are jobs for them even with just a >master's degree. So they change to a master's, complete the >program, and then go out and get a job." The Computer Research >Association report reveals that the popularity of computer science >degrees below the doctoral level continues to rise. Last year saw >a 20 percent rise in the number of computer-science bachelor and >master's degrees awarded. >(Chronicle of Higher Education Online, 27 March 2001)
