Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content")

["Julie JCH Ryan, D.Sc." <jjchryan () gwu edu>]

Another perspective on the education problem, keeping in mind that this 
is a global issue (as most are):


"How Professor Hawking computes"
Posted June 10, 2004 in ALS News
http://www.rideforlife.com/archives/001014.html

© Copyright 2003: Indian Express Group (Mumbai, India).

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"Mehta has himself been working with computers since 1971, when he was 
a student at IIT Delhi. His early exposure to computers was a result of 
a student programmer scheme started by Professor PCP Bhatt. “There are 
few activities that match programming in sheer creative potential. On 
the Internet, programmers can claim to have changed the world. You can 
make a decent living from it as well,” says he.


" What does he see as the three most important fields where Indian 
skills should be focussed upon? Mehta says, “Mobile phone applications, 
particularly m-commerce, and the integration of desktop and mobile 
apps. Secondly, industrial and home applications, including automation 
and networking. Thirdly, games, particularly for an older population.”


"His regret is that the quality of programmers churned out by India’s 
education system is poor. “Those who develop programming skills pretty 
much learn by themselves, or from their peers. The state of computer 
education particularly in our schools needs urgent attention, what is 
taught is horrific and by people with poor skills,” he says.


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