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CS woes: deadline-driven research, academic inequality

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Jeannette M. Wing,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 12

Pages 8 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1610252.1610257

Published: 01 December 2009 Publication History

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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.

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CS woes: deadline-driven research, academic inequality
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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Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 12

Finding the Fun in Computer Science Education

December 2009

127 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/1610252

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Wainer JValle E(2013) What happens to computer science research after it is published? Tracking CS research lines Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2281864:6(1104-1111)Online publication date: 2-Apr-2013
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