Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest, Talks Up Computing as a Career: "John V. Guttag, head of the university's electrical engineering and computer science department, points to the 'worrisome' downward trend. In the current academic year, 229 sophomores selected his department as their major, down from 282 in 2002 and 342 in 2001, a 33 percent decrease in just two years. "