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26 About the Forum searchers in mathematics and computer science, but many of the recently established disciplines that fall under the umbrella term computational sciences and include technical, natural, cultural and social sciences could also quickly teeter off after a rapid rise. The “lack of specialists” is not limited to higher education. What will you do when the next generation of scientists is not large enough and thus the ad- vances in society could run into a dead end? The reasons for raising awareness for computer science and mathematics are manifold: As tril- lions of data sets are transferred every day via computer networks in today’s information- and knowledge-based society, there is hardly a job or a recreation that takes place without chips, networks or the internet; at the same time, the number of students enrolling in natural sciences, engineering and mathematics has dropped sig- nificantly. In the spring of 2013, rough- ly 7.2 percent fewer students enrolled in these subjects at German universities com- pared to the previous year. What‘s more, in some cas- es, the dropout rate in com- puter science has reached up to 50 percent. Even success stories, such as the steadily increasing number of top earners at American software companies and the constantly growing job mar- ket in the IT sector, do not keep prospective com- puter scientists from dropping out of programs. For the scientific community, this offers a per- spective in an otherwise difficult time. In the long term, not only will there be fewer young re- Encouraging the Next Generation “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.“ Albert Einstein Turing Award Laureate Feigenbaum is talking to the next generation.