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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you have any sense of their salaries?[/quote]

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Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed, 
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends [/quote]

Look around. 
All the interesting, innovative, exciting, futuristic things happen in the tech field.

good luck finding fun in history english sociology [b]philosophy[/b] etc.
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If it weren't for philosophy, computer would not be what it is. It was Russell and Whitehead who codified natural language in to symbols, Ps and Qs, and showed that natural language can be mathematically manipulated like Xs and Ys.  This allowed computers to mimic human language and intelligence.

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DP: Yes, that's accurate. Or in simpler terms:  Where do you study logic? Philosophy.   Engineers took the symbolic logic of philosophy and made a machine out of it.  Computer scientists expand the functions of those machines--often harvesting the research findings from other areas (e.g., linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, biology) to do so.  [/quote]

I'm a professor and explain this to my CS students in my Intro class. Most students start the program with no understanding of the historical and ongoing connections between CS and the social sciences and are also surprised by the role of the humanities/arts (e.g., design, ethics, etc.). I remember a student a few years ago that was surprised that an Anthropologist and Geographer were on the project team he worked with as an intern at Google. [/quote]

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