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Foil 17 Internetics and Physics I

From Broadening Computational Science: Simulation and Internetics SIAM General Meeting Atlanta: Panel on Computational Science Education Organized by Kris Stewart SDSU -- May 14 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.
2 How do we rescue physics with revised curricula?
3 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
4 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

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