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From: matloff@winnie.Berkeley.EDU
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Subject: why have a CS major?
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Date: 25 Jul 90 02:08:34 GMT
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In article <37743@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@heather.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:

>BTW, why have a CS major at all?  I'm not being snide here.  If you
>really feel that universities should not be "technology schools"
>(which I agree), why not go all the way, and not have a CS major at
>all?  Let the companies themselves provide training courses.

^Stanford and MIT agree with that.  MIT only added a CS major in the 1980s
^and Stanford still doesn't have an undergraduate degree.

Are you sure about the latter?

^Both universities
^do offer graduate degrees on the more theoretical side.

I can't agree there.  There are lots of nontheoretical CS dissertations
which come out of those two schools.

   Norm