Is Computer Science Dead?

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 12, 2007 @08:51PM from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

warm sushi writes "An academic at the British Computing Society asks, Is computer science dead? Citing falling student enrollments and improved technology, British academic Neil McBride claims that off-the-shelf solutions are removing much of the demand for high-level development skills: 'As commercial software products have matured, it no longer makes sense for organizations to develop software from scratch. Accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day: stable, well-proven and easily available.' Is that quote laughable? Or has the software development industry stabilized to an off-the-self commodity?"

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Re:Wow! by daranz · 2007-03-12 21:11 · Score: 5, Funny

They arrived from lands far away thanks to the magic we call outsourcing?

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Re:Wow! by sunami · 2007-03-12 21:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Software don't write itself. All in good time... all in good time.
Is computer science dead? by jandersen · 2007-03-12 21:49 · Score: 4, Funny

No, no, it just smells funny.
Re:Wow! by Kelbear · 2007-03-13 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Deagle headshots from across the map.