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

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: July 22, 2005 12:53:00 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: Ip ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
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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