Re: [tlug] cs grad school in japan

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Moyle <michael@example.com> writes:

    Michael> Does anyone have any experience with Computer Science
    Michael> graduate programs in Japan and know how they work?

Some don't work....  The Japanese CS professors (about a dozen) I've
met tend to have very specialized interests.  They're very good at
what they do, usually some form of CS-related math; they rarely know
much about practical programming or administration topics.  I mean, to
take a very extreme example, the first honest-to-God virus mail I
received from inside the University came from the head of the PhD
program in information science.

Undergrads I've hired for programming projects etc say much the same
thing.  

    Michael> I don't speak Japanese, which appears to be a major
    Michael> stumbling block at all the universities I checked out.

This should scare you, given how important English is in programming.
Cf.

From: Alex Martelli <aleax@example.com>
Subject: Re: Multibyte Character Surport for Python
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 11:39:34 +0200
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