This is a talk I gave at New York City College of Technology to the faculty of the Math and Computer Science departments. About 40 people attended. They were interested in an industry view of what the students need to prepare for in the work place and what they should consider adding or revising to the curriculum. They were asking the right questions and this was very encouraging to me that a school with a solid curriculum already wants to push the boundaries further and recognizes that the gap between theory and practice doesn't need to be so great. The slides with the question came from the faculty, I tried to answer them directly with one slide, the second half touches on some areas I think few to none of the schools current teach but might be possible extensions to the curriculum in the future.

1. S H O W M E T H E M O N E Y
J O B S - W H E R E A R E
T H E Y ?
F O R C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E A N D M A T H M A J O R S
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2. • Banking - quants
• Advertising - big data
• Healthcare - bioinformatics
• Transportation - optimization
• Energy - simulations and modeling

3. G R U N T T A S K F O R
Y E A R S
C L E A N - U P A N D T E S T
W H A T W I L L T H E Y D O I N T H O S E J O B S ?

4. S T A R T I N G
T H E N E X T 5 0
Y E A R S
• The job no one else wants
• Clean up the mess
• Testing and QA
• Routine stuff
• Culture tolerance
• Temper the ego
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5. H O W T O G E T T H E J O B ?
S K I L L S A N D K N O W L E D G E

6. E I N S T E I N I S A B R A N D F I R S T A N D A B R A I N S E C O N D
Master one thing better than your peers
then share it with everyone.
Find people who know it better than you,
then repeat.

7. W H A T C A N T H E
F A C U L T Y D O ?
H O W T O P R E P A R E T H E S T U D E N T S ?

8. U N D E R S T A N D
B U S I N E S S
H O W D O E S I T F U N C T I O N A N D C R E A T E V A L U E ?

9. C U R R I C U L U M F O R
I N D U S T R Y R E A D I N E S S
I N T E G R A T I N G T H E O R Y W I T H P R A C T I C E

10. Problem framing
Fit for use
Tools Skills
Practice to mastery
Theory
Build/extend tools
Share solutions
R E A L W O R L D P R O J E C T
O V E R 4 Y E A R S A S A T E A M
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11. P O L Y G O T
P R O G R A M M I N G
L E A R N T O T H I N K M U L T I - P A R A D I G M

12. V I S U A L I Z I N G A N D U S I N G S O F T W A R E M E T R I C S
L I T E R A T E
P R O G R A M M I N G

13. Economics of Technical Debt
of Legacy Software

14. L I V E C O D I N G P E R F O R M A N C E

15. S U P E R C O M P U T I N G
S I M U L A T I O N
T E S L A N V I D I A C U D A

16. IoT Tools
Frameworks
Cyber Security
Infrastructure
Platforms

17. 1 . D E B U G G I N G
2 . O P T I M I Z A T I O N
Two essential skills that are scarce

18. P R O C E S S - L E A N / A G I L E
S O C I A L C O N S T R U C T I O N W I T H P E E R P R O G R A M M I N G

19. G L O B A L C O M P E T I T I O N
• Millions of Web/App developers
• Programming is a commodity
• Programming was co'opted by corp interest
• Top talent remains scarce
• Technology as fashion
• New value created by entrepreneurs, not technocrats

20. H A S A
D E G R E
E
B U T
N O
J O B
In the future everyone
becomes an entrepreneur