Re: How to get into Scientific Programming

"Baruch Vainas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[...]
> "...but they often can't do any significant research either. (Depends
> on the field, of course.)" [William, 2003-10-22]. That was said in
> reply to my: "A Prof with a tenure that doesn't have much contract
> money doesn't go out of business." [Baruch, 2003-10-22]
> Note your rather strong words "often" and "any". As to what looks like
> an insurance policy (or a sort of disclaimer) of "Depends on...",
> well, it doesn't make much sense that the academic system and academic
> freedom concepts should be significantly different in, say chemistry
> dept from that of math, or biology.

It doesn't? A mathematician or historian could probably finance their
own research, or scrounge minor grants sufficient for the task. In the
latter
case, they probaby weren't even concerned with corporate grants. Someone
who's specialty is high-energy physics, or the study of atom-level
structures
in large-scale semiconductors would probably not be able to get by if
corporate funding of that research dried up.

Not everyone can do research with a library card or a PC. -Wm

P.S. Fox News is part of Rupert Murdoch's multinational holdings.
(Which means there was a chance someone outside of the U.S. would
have gotten the joke, given the way Murdoch runs his "news" services,
generally.)