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- From: stas@netcom.com (Stanislav Malyshev)
- Subject: Re: B.S. Degree
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.022341.18023@netcom.com>
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- References: <BxzCKy.JtC@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov19.232802.22588@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <1992Nov22.031734.945@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:23:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.031734.945@linus.mitre.org> crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford) writes:
- >
- >True, if you're fond of hardware. But the better preparation for advanced
- >work in CS is a bachelor's degree in math. And a BS in marketing with a MS
- >in CS is a very good combination (or a BS in CS followed by a MBA). Just
- >about _any_ technical or business degree followed by the MS in CS is a healthy
- >combination. Just ask an ex-zoologist such as myself.
- >
- >| Randy Crawford crawford@mitre.org The MITRE Corporation
- >
-
- Well, that depends. If the "advanced work in CS" is hardware-related,
- say MPP, then EE would probably be better than math.
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- And one doesn't see much math in areas like AI, eh? Unless one is doing
- meta-theorem-prover stuff, or some other remnant from the good old days
- of there-is-an-algorithm-and-a-stupid-formalism-for-everything.
-
- -S
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