Computer Scientists Flee Academe for Industry's Greener Pastures

Universities face severe faculty shortages at a time of booming undergraduate enrollments

Just as he prepared to leave Cornell University last spring to help start a new high-technology company, Thorsten von Eicken got word that the computer-science department at Cornell had voted to grant him tenure.

He left anyway.

Mr. von Eicken is part of a stampede of bright, young Ph.D.'s in computer science who are abandoning academe for the corporate

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