[sesquipedalian]

Real computer scientists use comic sans for their presentations.

In all seriousness though, I've noticed that it was the font of choice for my CS professors in college.

[ams6110]

Probably to weed out people who are prone to complaining about trivialities.

[imglorp]

They're probably tired of latex's computer modern fonts in all their papers.

[tormeh]

For what is light without dark? what are nice fonts without ugly fonts?