Wall Street’s losses may be computer science’s gain

Computerworld Australia – The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and other IT careers attractive to students who abandoned those fields in droves after the dot-com bust of 2001.

William Dally, chairman of the computer science department at Stanford University, says that for the past several years, he has watched some students interested in technology go into banking and finance because those fields could be more lucrative.

"Many thought they could make more money in hedge funds," Dally says. He notes that students are returning to computer science because they like the field and not because it will necessarily make them rich.

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