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From: wes@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: CS with Laboratories
Message-ID: <2526@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 88 12:43:08 GMT
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In article <2726@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:
> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) wrote: 
> ->Undergrads do not need to be working with the leading
> ->edge technology.  They just need available computing resources to meet their
> ->needs.
> 
> Think about this, though: what are their needs, and what are they
> being taught?  Are you teaching students about current and future
> technology and methods with abacuses?
> 
Bravo, Henry!  If today's undergrads are going to be making tomorrow's
advances, they need access to the best their university can offer them.
  As it stands now, most undergrads
are thrown into the workplace with very little knowledge of the "state
of the art".  Most schools still teach tired old PL/1 and COBOL, despite
the emergence of 4GL's and especially Ada.  System Architecture is still
taught using the IBM System/370 architecture at UKentucky....*sigh*

What about courses in parallel processing?  It's not easy to jump into 
programming for parallel processors, yet very little attention is given
to the topic in most university curriculums.  How about artificial intel-
ligence?  expert systems?  

Undergraduate studies need to be moved into the 1980's.  So many universi-
ties are still teaching the 1960's basics.....and that's a shame. 

Wes [IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.] Morgan

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