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Foil 4 Changing Choices in Education

From Revised Version of Physics and Engineering Education and Outreach with Modern Information Technology HPCC Seminar Series at Penn State -- Jan 25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Students -- correctly -- perceive a growing opportunity in computer science related fields but outside biology, there is a decrease in interest in "technical sciences" such as physics, aerospace engineering etc.
2 In particular physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.
3 Classical Computational Science is not the answer but we suggest that a generalization -- Internetics at the interface between applications and "web/commodity" technologies offers interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the "technical sciences"
4 It is not enough to justify physics (as studying Latin and Greek was motivated to me) as "training the mind"

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