CS woes: deadline-driven research, academic inequality

Abstract

The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish excerpts from selected posts.

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Jeannette M. Wing writes about the negative effects of deadline-driven research and Mark Guzdial discusses the role of computer science faculty in fostering inequality.

References

1. Crowcroft, J., Keshav, S. and McKeown, N. Scaling the academic publication process to Internet scale. Commun. ACM 52, 1 (Jan. 2009), 27--30.
2. Vardi, M. Y. Conferences vs. journals in computing research. Commun. ACM 52, 5 (May 2009), 5.
3. Birman, K. and Schneider, F. B. Program committee overload in systems. Commun. ACM 52, 5 (May 2009), 34--37.

Index Terms

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing education

      • Computing education programs

        • Computer science education

        • Information science education