The Continuing American Decline in CS

abb_road writes "America's recent dismal showing in the ACM Programming finals may be more than just a bad year; a BusinessWeek article suggests that the loss is indicative of the US's continuing decline in producing computer scientists. Despite the Labor Dept's forecast of a 40% increase in 'computer/math scientist' jobs, planned CS enrollments have plummeted from 3.7% in 2000 to just 1.1% last year. Other countries, particularly China, India and Eastern Europe, are working hard to pick up the slack, with potentially serious long-term effects for the US economy. From the article: 'If our talent base weakens, our lead in technology, business, and economics will fade faster than any of us can imagine.'"

Comments

We just passed peak oil, Who cares?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Your coding abilities are not going to be of much use if you don't have the ability to power your computer system.

maybe they're aspiring to be President instead

[Locutus]

Anybody seen that photo of Bush walking around with the "Presidency for Dummies" book?

http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/95-presidency- for-dummies.html

LoB