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CS Degrees becoming rare??
The Computing Research Association just published some bleak data on student enrollments and computer science (CS) degrees being awarded. The report is the Taulbee Survey of Ph.D.-granting Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering departments in North America and has been conducted annually since 1974 I say bleak (unless you a CS degree) because much of […]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under General.
Tags: computer, computer science, degrees, enrollments, higher education, internet, math, report, results, survey
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Last Night’s Sound Bite!
If you weren’t listening closely to last night’s news stories you might have missed the sound bite that for the first time in history more than 1 in every 100 Americans is incarcerated in a prison or jail. This makes America the most incarcerated country in the entire world! Amongst all of the whoopla over […]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under General.
Tags: higher education, incarceration, inmates, jail, news, pew center on the states, report, spending
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Firefox 3 – Looking Good!!
I recently checked out the Beta 3 version of Firefox 3. While much of the improvements are behind the scenes, I wasn’t overly excited about Firefox 3 until today when I read this blog on the upcoming javascript performance. Bottomline, WOW!! Here is the summary test data of Sunspider Javascript Benchmark (note 10x better than […]
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under General.
Tags: beta, firefox, internet, javascript
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