• DOI:10.1145/214748.315722
• Corpus ID: 6853038

ACM forum

@inproceedings{Ashenhurst1987ACMF,
  title={ACM forum},
  author={Robert L. Ashenhurst},
  booktitle={CACM},
  year={1987}
}

• R. L. Ashenhurst
• Published in CACM 1987
• Medicine

Taulbee Survey Report I was disappointed in the report by David Gries on the 1984-1985 Taulbee Survey (Communications, October 1986, pp. 972-977). Although it was well presented, reasonably laid out and, most likely, accurate, it was not useful information. Data in this form need commentary to become information. I often hear of “industry eating its own seed corn” in reference to the hiring of Ph.D.‘s away from academia, and of a shortfall in Ph.D.‘s for computer science overall. I jumped at the chance to learn from the Gries report. Alas, there were no conclusions drawn, no help for all us uninformed. I know that time spent pouring over the data would give me some feel for the condition I am concerned over (e.g., potential lack of sufficient Ph.D.‘s), but I know I do not have the time and I fear I lack the knowledge to draw proper conclusions.