Computer Science Loses to Math in New Hiring Formula - WSJ.com

Computer Science Loses to Math in New Hiring Formula - WSJ.com: "Rather than looking for just plain-vanilla computer scientists, who typically don't have as deep a study of math and statistics, companies from Facebook Inc. to online advertising company AdMob Inc. say they need more workers with stronger backgrounds in statistics and a related field called machine learning, which involves writing algorithms that get smarter over time by looking for patterns in large data sets"