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Physics departments are facing problems in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.
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How do we re-invigorate physics with revised curricula?
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Classical Computational Science appears not to be a complete answer but Internetics offers some interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the "technical sciences"
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IT minor with a basic physics/engineering education
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Engineering/physics/math methods minor within an IT education
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Physics is in many ways a BETTER educational background than computer science to today's major computer science challenge -- designing and building distributed systems
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We can quite easily train people to program in Java but it is not so easy to design what should be programmed and how it fits together
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Physics trains students to look at systems from a fundamental point of view and to analyze quantitatively
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