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[IP] more on Gates: Lack of Computer Science Spending Is 'Kind of a Crime'



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From: radev@xxxxxxxxx
Date: July 22, 2005 5:51:50 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: [IP] more on Gates: Lack of Computer Science Spending Is 'Kind of a Crime' 
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Actually, Bill Gates didn't say that exactly. Here is a recording of
the talk:
http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20050718/ gates_msr_faculty_20050718_56.asx http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20050718/ gates_msr_faculty_20050718_100.asx http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20050718/ gates_msr_faculty_20050718_300.asx 

D.

David Farber wrote:





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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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