Internetics and Physics I
Physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.
How do we rescue physics with revised curricula?
Classical Computational Science appears not to be the answer but Internetics offers some interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the “technical sciences”
- IT minor with a basic physics/engineering education
- Engineering/physics/math methods minor within an IT education
Physics is in many ways a BETTER educational background than computer science to today’s major computer science challenge -- designing and building distributed systems
- 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
- Physics trains students to look at systems from a fundamental point of view and to analyze quantitatively