It also has IBM as a partner organization. But that's only one school. We need to do it for everybody. California has the lowest number of computers per student in the country. But corporate America, or Bill Gates, for example, could help put a computer on student desks.
Biotechnology is one of the areas having a particularly hard time recruiting workers and scientists.
At the secondary school level, Oceanside High School is implementing a biotechnology department that it claims will be state of the art, which may help fill the local technology pipeline. But until public schools are funded more evenly across the board, the emphasis will continue to remain on trying to grab the highest caliber of university students. Taylor has endowed a chair at the University of California San Diego, the Ronald R. Taylor Chair in Computer Science. But in addition to faculty, we need more money for scholarships. Windward Ventures general partner Dave Titus said start-ups in San Diego are particularly vulnerable and will succeed or fail based on their recruiting strategies.