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I think there is a danger in Computer Science departments trying to become more theory oriented in order to survive. If applications are moving to their own dep
by coliveira 14y ago
I think there is a danger in Computer Science departments trying to become more theory oriented in order to survive. If applications are moving to their own departments in Business and Bioinformatics, CS may decide to become more theoretical. If this happens, though, growth in terms of research money will become even harder to find.
- _delirium 14y agoI've heard that discussed at some CS conferences as the "mathematics trajectory", which a lot of computer scientists think is best avoided. Essentially, becoming a pure discipline with little funding (because the applications work has gone elsewhere), and with a position in the university that's largely internally funded by your professors teaching intro-level "service" courses for other departments, the way math departments get a lot of their teaching credits by teaching Calc 101 and similar.