Texas Christian University - Computer Science Department

Computer and Mathematical Science Occupation Growth

Posted: December 21, 2007

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projections indicate that despite concerns over the impact of globalization, computing-related occupations are expected to grow the most among all "professional and related occupations" during the 2006-2016 period.

Computing Research Association
http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000643.html

Software Industry Growth

Posted: May 16, 2007

[For the software publishing industry] Wage and salary employment is expected to increase by 68 percent between 2004 and 2014, almost five times the 14 percent growth projected for all industries combined.

U.S. Department of Labor
Career Guide to Industries, 2006-07 Edition

Computer Occupations Expected to Grow Fastest

Posted: January 10, 2007

Among all occupations in the economy, computer and healthcare occupations are expected to grow the fastest over the projection period. In fact, healthcare occupations make up 12 of the 20 fastest growing occupations, while computer occupations account for 5 out of the 20 fastest growing occupations in the economy. In addition to high growth rates, these 17 computer and healthcare occupations combined will add more than 1.8 million new jobs. High growth rates among computer and healthcare occupations reflect projected rapid growth in the computer and data processing and health services industries.

U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2006-07 Edition

Job Migration Myths

Posted: January 10, 2007

Despite all the publicity in the United States about jobs being lost to India and China, the size of the IT employment market in the United States today is higher than it was at the height of the dot.com boom.

Association for Computing Machinery
Report of the Job Migration Task Force, 2006

Presentation and Computer Science Society Meeting

Posted: March 24, 2006

When: Wednesday, March 29th @ 5:00
Where: TTC Room 139L Roach Development Center

The TCU Computer Science Society will be hosting a presentation on Integrated Circuit Fabrication. Following the presentation there will be a brief CSS meeting.

Computer Science Society Meeting

Posted: October 20, 2005

When: Thursday, October 27th @ 5:30
Where: TTC Room 300

The TCU Computer Science Society will be having their first meeting covering future plans for the year, CSS t-shirts , and planned trips.
Come and meet others with an interest in computers and technology. All majors and non-majors welcome!

FREE PIZZA AND DRINK!!

If you have any questions please email b.wigginton@tcu.edu or ryan.gibbons@tcu.edu. Hope to see you all there!

TCU Programming Contest

Posted: October 11, 2005

The local programming contest is planned for this coming Sat, Oct 15.
The contest is held in room 331 of the Tucker Technology Center building. Because homecoming is also this Saturday, we will be starting at 8:00 A.M., an hour earlier than usual.

The contest involves solving a set of programming problems in either Java or C. The winners are determined on the basis of the number of problems solved and the time required to solve them. The contest gives you a chance to challenge both your classmates as well as Dr. Rinewalt (Dr. Rinewalt has always won, but admits his lead has started to shrink in recent years -- comes see if this is the year he must relinquish his crown). Pizza and soft drinks will be served, winners recognized, and prizes awarded immediately following the contest in the TTC third floor lounge.

The results of the contest serve as one of the criteria for selecting students to represent TCU at the regional ACM programming contest. This year we are fortune to already have the core of 2 strong teams through the efforts of a set of students who "got the bug" after last year's regional contest. However, we still need to augment the teams with alternates and we want to attract new recruits for future years.

Come join us for some camaraderie and competition before the homecoming festivities.

US Department of Labor's Latest Technology Job Statistics

Posted: October 10, 2005

"Employment in professional, scientific, and technical services will grow by 27.8 percent and add 1.9 million new jobs by 2012. Employment in computer systems design and related services will grow by 54.6 percent and add more than one-third of all new jobs in professional, scientific, and technical services. Employment growth will be driven by the increasing reliance of businesses on information technology and the continuing importance of maintaining system and network security."

U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition