Re: Computers as weapons

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From: Dave Nadler
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 19:23

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Does anyone have any _facts_ about percentage of computer scientists
working for "military" vs "commercial"(i.e. non-military) companies?

NCR has 1700 "computer scientists" (programmers, system analysts,
project leaders, communications specialists, software engineers, and
other CS-related jobs).  DEC, IBM, Xerox, and some big telephone
company whose name escapes me :) have more (a lot more?) "computer
scientists".  And a relatively small percentage of these people
work on COBOL.  Except for the 1700 CS people @ NCR, I'm only guessing
at other numbers.  

So, I ask if anyone knows of some numbers to support or refute Paul's 
opinion.  How about a past ACM or Datamation survey?  I find it hard 
to believe that job security and interesting work can be found only 
within a "defense" company.

Dave Nadler

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