[IP] more on Gates: Lack of Computer Science Spending Is 'Kind of a Crime'
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From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 22, 2005 12:53:00 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ip ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Gates: Lack of Computer Science Spending Is 'Kind
of a Crime'
At 5:56 PM -0400 7/20/05, David Farber wrote:
... Gates said. "If they said they'd read 'The Art of Computer
Programming' and they did all the problems, I'd hire them right away!"
Klawe chimed in: "So would I!"
I wouldn't, because they'd be lying. For some of those problems, a
solution would earn you a PhD, and a few might get you a Turing Award.
Someone who told me he had done "all the problems" is either lying,
or he hasn't understood what he's read.
Ben
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