Recent content by rdg123

Imo, the tide is turning against CS grads with the hot new domain of multiscale modeling. Something has to resurrect and breathe life into an intellectual pursuit for science and engineering. Right now, who wants to get a science Phd and be held accountable in the workplace? Or told...

The "real" world wants the cheapest on-demand problem solvers, not people mistaking paper degrees for licenses guaranteeing long term professions like a medical doctor. someone out of university with a CS degree won't have much large scale design experience or domain knowledge. They are...

Agree wholeheartedly with the OP. I wonder how many physics students are in school with the notion that a phd in physics is an attention getter in the "real" world because of so-called critical thinking skills. The elite make a big stink over math and physics skills as a primary indicator of...

Sometimes I get the impression that employers want a. Experience in a particular software tool AND b. Specialization and this trumps everything else other than work experience. It wasn't unsual for people with no formal educational background in Computer Science to land programming jobs...

"...are very few who really understand this stuff well." Just curious, can you be more specific, and what is the root of this problem?