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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Value of Computer Science degree
Message-ID: <1377@utai.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 10:17:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 10:17:10 1986
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References: <1404@ames.UUCP> <3367@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1046@milano.UUCP> <25@gilbbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <25@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes:
>   Access to resources is becoming more and more limited (see related articles
>re: 'billing' practices), while freedom in the academic area is becoming less
>available. 

Huh? I see immense improvements in the first area (a PC a person for intro.
courses is an improvement over cards... and many places have sufficient
computing power to use cycle and memory hogs like Ada and Common Lisp --
even grossly underfunded canadian universities).  As far as academic freedom
is concerned, I see no essential difference.

>   In essence, the mantle of respectability has fallen upon the CSci arena,
>thus raising up the push for conformity.  Too put it bluntly, it stinks!

You have to realise that students now are much more conservative than a few
years ago.  They can't party all the time and still rest assured to find a
job...  Their motivations for entering Computer Science programs are certainly
different from mine 6 years ago.





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Jean-Francois Lamy              
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,         
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.
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