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The theoretic center of computer science

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Michael Kuhn,

Roger WattenhoferAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGACT News, Volume 38, Issue 4

Pages 54 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/1345189.1345202

Published: 01 December 2007 Publication History

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In this article we examine computer science in general, and theory and distributed computing in particular. We present a map of the computer science conferences, speculating about the center of computer science. In addition we present some trends and developments. Finally we revisit centrality, wondering about the central actors in computer science. This article is a printed version of a frivolous PODC 2007 business meeting talk, held by the second author. In an attempt to address a broader audience we have extended the content by data about theory conferences and computer science in general. Still, the character of the information remains the same, meaning our investigations should not be taken too seriously.

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The theoretic center of computer science
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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ACM SIGACT News Volume 38, Issue 4

December 2007

54 pages

ISSN:0163-5700

DOI:10.1145/1345189

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Goussevskaia OKuhn MLorenzi MWattenhofer R(2008)From Web to MapProceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 0110.1109/WIIAT.2008.20(242-248)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2008
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