--- On Wed, 6/11/08, edward desilva <guirimboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Who in their right mind would want to do PhD when they can
> get a job?
>
This is another comment on the lines of "Goa is a toilet".
If one sees what drives the top firms of today such as google, yahoo,
Microsoft, you will find that it is a whole lot of top class engineers
many of whom have PhDs.
In fact, google and yahoo were founded by Stanford PhD students. If Sergie Bin,
and Larry Page had listened to Edward and taken up jobs instead
of going for a PhD (and yeah, they were not getting any jobs :-)) we
wouldnt have had a google now.
In fact, it is widely acknowledged that engineering PhDs are crucial
to maintain a country's technological edge.
Some of the critical problems of today (some of which the top firms are
frantically trying to solve in the race for future leadership) such as natural
language based search etc in fact require more rather than less
PhDs.
regards,
Samir
