Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties

An anonymous reader writes "A Brown University project collected the background information of over 2,000 computer science professors in 51 top universities. The data shows a skew in their doctoral degrees, "Over 20% of professors received their Ph.D. from MIT or Berkeley, while more than half of professors received their Ph.D. from the [top] 10 universities." For those professors, fewer work in theoretical computer science and there is a growing trend of recent hires in systems and applications. The original data is also publicly-editable and available to download."

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dream on

[slashmydots]

I'm the CIO of my company and we don't hire rich kids. They're spoiled, self-important, arrogant assholes who don't listen to instruction. So if mommy and daddy sent you to a $50,000 a year college, good fucking luck getting a job with someone like me who is wise enough to avoid you. You're automatically disqualified. Unfortunately, most of the world is too stupid to see things the way I do. I got 2 degrees from a local but extremely good technical school. Immediately after that I won several programming competitions and on a national Tek Systems/Aerotek exam I beat 88% of their programmers worldwide. So I'm one of the best programmers anyone could hope to hire. Unfortunately, I'm CIO now instead because NOBODY would hire me as a programmer without a degree from a more expensive school. That's right, they ignored my actual proven ability to do the job in favor of someone who went to a better college because their parents had more money. What a load of shit.

Re:dream on

[BilI_the_Engineer]

If you think being an engineer is about mindlessly obeying illogical social conventions, then I doubt you even understand what an engineer does. Obeying illogical social conventions is not important to being an engineer at all. And let me tell you, being an engineer is about logic.

What this is is someone trying to control the very use of language by arbitrarily deciding that certain words are inherently 'bad.' This is religious fundamentalist-level garbage.

And engineers are a dime a dozen, while good communicators are rare.

You have that backwards. Good engineers are extremely scarce, while people capable of communicating well enough with others aren't hard to find at all.

And no, someone isn't a 'bad' communicator just because they use words that you have some irrational hatred of. In fact, you used the word "communicating," which I hate. Therefore, you're bad at communicating with others.

Now fuck off.