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@Article{Berztiss:1979:MPC,
  author =       "Alfs T. Berztiss",
  title =        "The {M.S}. program in computer science",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "11",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "61--69",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1979",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953030.809554",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 07:38:08 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 10th SIGCSE Symposium on Computer
                 Science Education.",
  abstract =     "The need for graduates from master's programs in
                 computer science and related areas is well recognized
                 [19, 20]. Indeed, some companies have a policy of
                 extensively utilizing master's programs at universities
                 for the continuing education of their employees. The
                 Graduate Study Program of Bell Laboratories is well
                 known. At Honeywell Information Systems it has been
                 found that support of continuing studies at the
                 master's level helps in hiring and retaining personnel,
                 and is beneficial to the dissemination of new
                 technology through the organization [29]. It has been
                 demonstrated that programmers acquire new knowledge
                 primarily from other programmers [17]; periodic influx
                 into an organization of graduates of programs of
                 advanced study is therefore essential if the
                 organization is to retain technical soundness.
                 Universities have responded to this need, but in a
                 rather haphazard manner, with the result that we have
                 today a variety of programs, some of which have very
                 little to do with computer science. Some of the
                 programs are no more than, to use Smoliar's [41] words,
                 ``undergraduate programs for grown-ups.'' Others are
                 viewed as a first stage in the preparation for research
                 careers of narrow specialization. Late in 1972 Terry
                 Walker [45] conducted a poll of master's degree
                 granting departments. The four primary objectives of a
                 master's program given by the 93 respondents were:
                 prepare a person for a job designing computer software
                 systems, prepare a person for a job as a systems
                 analyst, prepare a person to pursue a doctoral degree
                 in computer science, prepare a person for a job as a
                 scientific programmer. Today one would add a fifth
                 objective: prepare a person for teaching computer
                 science at the junior college level. There is clearly a
                 need to reconcile these different objectives with a
                 unified view of computer science.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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