The STEM Anxiety Business
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چکیده
The late legendary CBS journalist Eric Sevareid once wryly observed, “The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, re nement, and distribution of anxiety.”1 Periodic ruminations over asserted shortages of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals and students are major contributors to that immensely wasteful American pastime.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Computer
دوره 49 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016