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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP (Robert Atkinson)
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Subject: Re: Titles
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 09:40:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 09:40:46 1986
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> In article <4588@kestrel.ARPA> ladkin@kestrel.ARPA writes:
> >I don't know whether this is a joke or not.
> >It is silly, but not very funny. It gives people the misleading
> >impression that you can get far in computer science without anything
> >but coding talent. This will be true for a very few. Or it will
> >restrict you to working for banks and job shops.
> >It's unlikely to get you working for Sun, Symbolics, Xenon,
> >Teknowledge, Intellicorp, SRI,.......
> 
> I don't know about Symbolics, Xenon et al, but I do know a fair number
> of people who work for Sun.  I just went down a mental list of people
> who either don't have any degrees at all, or have a degree in something
> other than computer science (like Urban Planning, or Geology).  Guess
> what -- I just ran out of fingers and I didn't pause once.  So -- Sun
> will hire you if you are good and don't have a csc or ee degree.

I did the same thing for the System Concepts Lab at Xerox PARC.  I came
up with three or four architects, a PhD in physics, a philosophy major,
a music major, at least two mathematics majors, a graphic designer, and
a couple whose majors I forget but know were not CS.  Only one person
(maybe one or two others, but I'm not sure) to my knownledge has a PhD
in CS, and only a handful of others have undergrad majors in CS.
ALL of these people are creative, bright, talented individuals.  These are
by far more important attributes than having a piece of paper with ``CS''
on it.

	-bob atkinson

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