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Computing's Lost Allure
by Jeremy at 11:02 pm EDT, May 21, 2003

At the height of the Internet boom in the late 90's, computer science talent was in such demand that recruiters offered signing bonuses to students who agreed to drop out of school. Now, spooked by layoffs and disabused of visions of overnight riches, many undergraduates are turning away from computer science as if it were somehow cursed.

Katie Hafner writes about the fall of computing at American universities in the Thursday edition of the New York Times.


 
 
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