Apparently, quite a few of his best students drop computer science at A-level because top universities are still sniffy about it.

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The University of Waterloo is known for being one of the best universities in the world for computer science.

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California cities like San Jose and San Francisco have become hotbeds of innovation and recruit talent with backgrounds in engineering and computer science, among the best-paying fields.

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Although they are underrepresented in the field, computer science jobs are also among the best-paying for women.

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The best returns are often from schools with strong engineering, computer science, economics and natural-science programs.

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The best university in this country in environmental science and in computer gaming.

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But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.

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Computer science has gotten a lot of attention as a college major with one of the best job prospects, but in the Georgetown study, it comes out as roughly equivalent to journalism.

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