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CS woes: deadline-driven research, academic inequality

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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.

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

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cover image Communications of the ACM
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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Published: 01 December 2009
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  • (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
  • (2011)Journals for certification, conferences for rapid disseminationCommunications of the ACM10.1145/1978542.197855554:8(36-38)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2011

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