IT sector can't fill thousands of jobs
Commenting on reports that the IT industry is facing a staffing crisis with companies struggling to fill 14,000 jobs over the next three years, Professor David Parnas said there was a need to attract the top students into the industry by making computer science more interesting.
"We need the students that think deeply because it takes deep thinking to be successful in the IT business," he said. He disagreed with the suggestion that we needed more programmers and suggested that, instead, we needed better ones. There were enough productive bad programmers and what was needed was to find a way to produce really good software, said Professor Parnas. Author of more than 200 reports during his 30 years of research, Professor Parnas has spent several years in US and Canadian universities and will now link his research team with projects underway at University of Limerick's College of Informatics.
