Xref: utzoo soc.college:5474 comp.edu:3348 misc.jobs.misc:7319 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!liu From: liu@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Hai-Ning Liu) Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu,misc.jobs.misc Subject: Re: Academia vs. Industry (for CS PhDs) Message-ID: Date: 15 Jul 90 07:29:34 GMT References: <9518@hacgate.UUCP> <1094@cs.nps.navy.mil> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Followup-To: soc.college Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: beowulf.ucsd.edu shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (Tim Shimeall) writes: >First, be aware that the academic market for CS Ph.D.s is tightening >rapidly. In 1982, there were about 7 academic jobs open for every >Ph.D. that graduated (based on the Snowbird report). In 1990, many >departments have hundreds of Ph.D. applicants for every open position. >Many of the top schools are not hiring any longer, and the second and >third tier schools are filling rapidly. In short, unless you are an >exceptionally talented student in a rare-but-needed speciality, you >may have a VERY hard time getting an academic job. Thank you all on this discussion. I think each school is still looking for "new blood" to expand their programs. Well I am still a theory student, or a "utility" student, ( we design and publish all sorts of nobody-wanted-algorithms), I would like to know over the next few years which fields will still be "hot" and which will not; e.g. VLSI, networking, AI etc etc. My assumption is that if an area is not hot in industry, then it will be cold in most US schools.