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Foil 12 Impact of IT Worker Shortage on Physics and Engineering education

From The unrealized Scientific Challenges: Retraining Scientists for the Information Age NCSA Alliance EAC Meeting -- September 21 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 So depending on the source, one finds a shortage of 100,000 to 300,000 workers in Information Technology today -- this is forecast to grow with 1 million more jobs created by industry by year 2004
2 So physics and "physical technology" aspects of engineering (e.g. mechanical and aerospace engineering) could compete with this trend and try to attract good students from this field
3 Further Information Technology is playing an increasing role in both experimental and theoretical science
  • Distributed collaborative environment to gather sensor data is as useful as optimal coding of Quantum Chromodynamics simulation
4 Note IT job opportunities are in applications -- perhaps more so than in "basic systems"
5 Having a Physics Ph.D., I will discuss this field as an example

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