Tag: ACM

• The “elevator pitch”: not so uplifting?

  Peter J. Denning is something of a computing hero to me. He formulated the concept of the working set, around which I based my MSc project and he has been personally very kind to me in reading and commenting on that report. So, the article has written (for the ACM), with Nicholas Dew, in which…

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 11, 2013

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  ACM, Elevator pitch, Peter J. Denning

• Computer scientists’ lousy citation style

  I am reading this book: Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency, and I am struck, once again, by the truly lousy style of publication reference that seem to be preferred by so many computer scientists, The style used in the book appears to be that favoured by the American Mathematical Society – the so-called “authorship…

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 25, 2012

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  ACM, American Mathematical Society, Bibliography, Chicago citation style, Citation, citation format, citation system, computer science, computer scientists, literature reviews, Operating system, Real-time computing, Real-Time Systems