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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • August 23, 2005
    The Times published an article today on the decreasing interest in degrees in pure computer science by new college students, presumably due to the increasing ubiquity of computers and simplicity of their interfaces:

    ``As hand-drawn animation gave way to computer-generated animation, Ms. Lehtomaki took up computer graphics in college. `These two worlds of art and computing are really merging, and, if anything, they will blend even more,' she said.

    ``The same is true in other fields. In biology, DNA code can be explored and simulated in computer code. Drug discovery and chemical analysis rely on computer simulations, as do weather prediction and oil exploration. Even the automobile - now largely controlled and monitored by a network of microprocessors and software - has become a computer on wheels.

    ```Computing has become the third pillar of science, along with theory and experiment,' observed Daniel A. Reed, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute, a collaboration of researchers from the University of North Carolina, Duke University and North Carolina State University.''

    Full story (free registration required):
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/technology/23geeks.html

    Reference by Slashdot.

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