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IT? I’ve always used IT as a shorthand for “corporate information systems,” or “the stuff that a nerd wouldn’t voluntarily touch with a ten-foot pole”. ‘IT’ means ‘TPS reports.’ ‘IT’ means ‘9-to-5, Monday through Friday.’ I’m surprised that a pair of CS profs would lament the lack of “IT researchers and educators” — isn’t more CS researchers and educators what they want? If we’re to point fingers, it was corporate IT that sucked the ‘thrill’ out of computer science’s reputation among undergrads. (That, or Scott Adams. )If there’s anything truly opposed to the “hacker” philosophy that makes CS thrilling, it’s the reputation of corporate information technology.
Joseph Barillari
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