DocuCrunch.com » students http://www.docucrunch.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:23:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Few, the Proud, the Geeks http://www.docucrunch.com/the-few-the-proud-the-geeks http://www.docucrunch.com/the-few-the-proud-the-geeks#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:43:09 +0000 Steve Hannaford http://www.docucrunch.com/?p=2495 U.S. National Security is threatened, and only one group can save it — computer geeks.

That’s the conclusion of the US Defense Department, according to a recent story in Wired Magazine.

The lack of serious computer skills (more than required to tweet or play Grand Theft Auto) is making us more and more vulnerable in a world in which cyber warfare looks likely to be even more important than hand-to-hand combat.

And there is a real crisis. The Computer Research Association has reported computer science enrollment dropped 43% between 2003 and 2006. The ability to engineer and especially to protect data resources is diminishing, even as it is becomes more crucial.

The upshot is that the US Department of Defense is working on programs top encourage teenagers to take up the study of Computer Science. What the country needs is fewer lawyers and video experts, and more geeks with the ability to stand guard over our cyber resources.

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