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

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: radev@umich.edu
Date: July 22, 2005 5:51:50 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com (Ip ip)
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Gates: Lack of Computer Science Spending Is  
'Kind of a Crime'
Reply-To: radev@umich.edu


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:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> 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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Dragomir R. Radev                                          
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