Ironie della sorte per la NSA

BusinessWeek riporta come la NSA, ossia l'agenzia di sicurezza USA che si occupa di codici e spionaggio "informatico", abbia sempre pui' bisogno di nbuoni matematici, ma non puo' assumere stranieri (un incredibile 50% dei laureati USA in matematica) ne' offire la stessa paga di GOogle o Yahoo.

Risposta: lifestyle. How ironic...

Online Extra: The NSA: Security in Numbers: "But there's also a lifestyle lure. NSA officials say a good number of mathematicians prefer a suburban Maryland life and a government job with predictable hours to the more frantic pace and market gyrations of an Internet company. This is especially true of women. In general, they're underrepresented in mathematics, but far less so at the NSA. 'Many of our new hires are women, especially at the PhD level,' says James Schatz, chief of the mathematics research group at the agency. "