Report from the trenches: Here in Southeast Michigan, companies are fighting tooth and nail for software developers, including entry-level people. Firms from the Detroit Metro and Ann Arbor areas (we're between the two) are looking for mobile app developers, web people, mainframe programmers, project managers, Java developers, all kinds of things. E.g., Quicken Loans in Detroit is hiring 400. GE moved their global software dev HQ nearby and will hire hundreds. At our IT Career Fair a week ago, students were getting offers on the spot. This feels similar to the software boom times in the 1980s, when students had a hard time completing their BS degrees before getting offers they couldn't refuse. In between these eras, not so much. - Bill On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> wrote:

Did anyone see the piece in the latest issue of IEEE Computer on "Software Crisis 2.0"? (April 2012, 89-91). While historians of computing have been moving away from the idea that the "software crisis" was a real phenomenon (see, e.g., Tom Haigh's essays on this), the computer scientist who wrote this article refers to the crisis as "well-documented" and "confirmed." Not only that, he claims there is a new software crisis upon us, fueled by information overload and demands for ubiquitous computing.

Am I right that there is a gap in perception here between practitioners and historians?

Dr. Janet Abbate Associate Professor Science & Technology in Society Virginia Tech

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