Citing falling student enrollments and improved technology, an academic at the British Computing Society asks whether computer science is dead, claiming that there is less need for high-level development schools, in an article published on the BCS Web site in February 2007. Neil McBride argues that computer studies are a dying discipline, evident in the dwindling student numbers in university CS departments, in the plethora of new jobs in the 1990s that were reduced to a trickle and are only slowly making a comeback, and an ongoing view that IT is a job for geeks and social misfits.

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