If these CEOs feel strongly about the development of a U.S. technical workforce, they should help entice young men and women to technical fields ("Job No. 1 For The U.S.: Build A Tech Workforce," May 8).

My son is extremely interested and talented in technology. He's 14 and just completing eighth grade. Where can he take these skills? There are limited internships for college students, so few as to be none for high school students. So I challenge these CEOs, start more internships, especially at the high school and even middle school level, for talented, motivated young people. Perhaps then we can keep them in the technical field.

Steven J. Soller
Service Relations Manager, EDS
Louisville, Colo.

Technical Know-How

This isn't entirely about technical education. A liberal arts education is perhaps more important than ever, but technical capabilities need to be part of that education. So yes, we need more technical specialists, and we also need more technical capability in our generalists. It's this latter point that I think we most often forget, and it's probably the more critical issue.

John Mullinax
Special Projects Manager, Ford
Dearborn, Mich.

Take Back The Campus

We cannot create the needed workforce until the science majors wrest control of academia from the liberal arts faculty. When a foreign language can be used to satisfy a college's math requirement, there's no hope to change the paradigm.

Mark Methlie
Supervisor, AT&T
Wayne, Pa.

A Lesson In Wi-Fi

As our college rolls out Wi-Fi, I've come to realize that as an architecture, multiple access points simply don't scale out and retain manageability ("Today's Lesson:Wi-Fi Capacity," May 1).

Access points have their place, but for larger-scale deployments designed to light up an entire campus, technologies that take advantage of high-gain antenna technology and provide non-line-of-sight capability look very promising. These technologies take the approach of creating an umbrella across an entire campus from a single, centralized location.

Philip Bierdz
Director, Network Operations Center
Moraine Valley Community College
Palos Hills, Ill.

On The Mark

What an excellent pair of articles! Both "Beware Child Predators" (May 1) and "Connected to Nowhere" (May 1) did an outstanding job of explaining the risks to our kids and what we can do to decrease those risks.

Maureen Stone
Senior Account Manager, TekCel
Milwaukee