more on Fixing a busted IT research system

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers () cs utexas edu>
Date: September 21, 2004 10:46:51 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Fixing a busted IT research system

If going from 23,300 to 24,550 is a decline, then our problems with  
innumeracy are much more serious than I thought!  Or is our problem  
with proof-reading and fact-checking in journalism?

Ben Kuipers


At 10:06 AM -0400 9/21/04, David Farber wrote:
> Fixing a busted IT research system
>
>  By  Ed Frauenheim
>  Staff Writer, CNET News.com
> <http://news.com.com/Fixing+a+busted+IT+research+system/2008-1008_3 
> -5374992.html>
>
>  Story last modified September 21, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT
>
> James Foley is worried.
>
>  As chairman of the Computing Research Association--a group made up of  
> academic departments, research centers and professional societies--his  
> job at CRA is to improve computing research and education. But Foley  
> sees troubling trends in the nation's system for nurturing and  
> training new information technology scientists.
>
> ...
>
>  Q: The number of science and engineering Ph.D.s awarded in the United  
> States has been falling, from 23,300 in 1998 down to 24,550 in 2002.  
> How big a deal is that decline?

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