September 16, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 131) • Page Image 4
… t’s recruiting season, and that means North Campus at the University of Michigan is being flooded with companies desperate for computer science talent. This past week, Microsoft, Palantir and…
… Uber had events on North Campus, and this week’s engineering career fair will host more than 300 companies, most of them recruiting computer science students. It’s a good time to be studying CS…
… these students, what does a University of Michigan CS education prepare them for? Increasingly, it seems, life at a big tech company. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple were five of the…
… curriculum, and concern for these issues seems to be rare among the student body. It’s time computer science students consider the morality and ethics of where they work and what they work on. A CS…
…, not just build projects in a vacuum. For students aware of the responsibilities that come with their power as computer scientists, working in big tech may even be the right choice. With the…
… potential to affect millions or billions of people with their code and the shortage of CS talent, there is little precedent for the power that computer scientists have today. Because of this…
…, collective action by computer scientists can have a substantial impact on the places they work, and by extension, the world. In the past year we’ve seen Google employees instigate changes to sexual…