In academic computer science, conferences are often more important than journals, but The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of
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Computer Science as a failed discipline
(from 2010) I write an email to a CS Prof. asking if they have any followup work on some nice OS measurement research they published
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ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to
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[Edited 9/10] There’s an easy connection between data structures and basic abstract algebra that may or may not mean anything, but keeps getting rediscovered. I’ve
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