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Do we need more scientists?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 06:53:25 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Tim Finin <finin () cs umbc edu> Date: September 5, 2004 8:56:48 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Do we need more scientists? Peter Harsha's CRA Research Policy Blog (http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/) has an entry on a RAND report on the Science and Engineering workforce: Thanks to Richard Jones at the American Institute of Physics for pointing out this report put together by RAND on The U.S. Scientific and Technical Workforce: Improving Data for Decision making. The report is an interesting collection of papers on the current controversy surrounding the adequacy of the science and engineering workforce and very relevant to current questions about projected shortages in the IT workforce specifically. I'll have more to comment on this as I dig in to the report, but I can say by way of preview that the most notable paper appears to be Michael S. Teitlebaum's chapter "Do We Need More Scientists?" Teitelbaum, a demographer and program director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, argues that recent history is littered with predictions of S&E workforce shortages that have failed to appear and that any current claim of shortage has to address how it's possible given the relatively high levels of unemployment found in certain S&E occupations and the lack of increasing salaries. ... http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/ ... ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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