PEI needs a serious school of Computer Science

What we need on PEI is successful high tech development on the scale of Slemon Park

The best way to make that happen is through the establishment of a serious Computer Science program at UPEI including graduate studies.

I don’t mean to denigrate the current department but their own website says it: only 9 in the faculty. Update – in 2010 the number has shrunk to 6 professors.

‘Students from our department have an excellent record of placement at the country’s top graduate schools, including University of Toronto, Waterloo, British Columbia and McGill.’

If your goal is prepare students to go onto other schools, they will. When they graduate they get jobs somewhere else.

You can’t develop a serious IT sector without brain power: young people with graduate degrees in computer science. Microsoft couldn’t even think about a lab here. They need hundreds and hundreds of the latest graduates to come up with cool technology.

When I had Aquilium here in the 90′s we were doing leading edge stuff for back then. We could not find top programmers et al we needed simply because UPEI was not churning them out.

I gotta go practice guitar. This is depressing.

Shop Amazon - Save 40 or More Off Thousands of Items in Our Musical Instruments Store
  • Anonymous

    I wonder is UPEI churing out any qualified therapists?
    Maybe PEI sould also recognize the need for a new addiction facility.

    Here is a interestly witty 10 question questionaire, how do you you score ?

    10. You check your blog stats a LOT. You occasionally get up in the middle of the night and sneak a peak.

    9. Your significant other suspects you are having an affair with your blog. Even when you’re alone with your special person, you do find yourself thinking what your blog might be doing right then…

    8. You “mental blog” while driving or on the train, and sometimes even when you are alone in the shower.

    7. You filter everything through your post-writing. You can’t watch a movie, see a play, read an article, or share a sweet moment with your child without thinking of whether it’s blog-worthy.

    6. You suffer from “blog envy” when another blogger posts something juicy before you do. You suffer “comment envy” when said post gets 40-something comments – the jerk!

    5. You “binge blog” 3 or 4 posts at once—only to feel guilty and empty afterward.

    4. You ditched all your real friends for blog friends, because, well, “they understand.” You bypass Bowling Alone at the bookstore (who really cares?) while you reach for Naked Conversations.

    3. You think, “I can stop at any time.”

    2. Your lunch hour has become your “blog hour.” You keep a few posts tucked in your desk in case you need them during the day.

    1. After 5 minutes of meeting someone really interesting you ask, “So – do you blog?”