Gates pitches computer science, biology studies
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
"You can't go wrong in computer science," Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told University of California, Berkeley students on Friday. Some students, however, were unhappy with the way Gates responded to questions about increasing competition for jobs from China and India.
But while Gates' regular university visits are meant to evangelize the field of computer science, several students felt Gates did not address their concerns about outsourcing and the growing number of engineers in lower-wage countries like China and India.
"Gates sort of glossed that over. As chairman of a corporation, does he care where he hires his employees?" said Anatoly Smolkin, an electrical engineering and computer science student at the university. Jobs will move overseas and salaries for computer scientists and engineers will fall as a result of competition with countries such as India and China, he said.