Tag: computer scientists

• Computer programming centre-right lovers of Swedish meatballs

  According to YouGov (the UK’s largest polling company) that is what typical lovers of Linux are – though it’s based on just 272 individual profiles (out of 200,000 or so members of YouGov’s panel). Oh, and they are blokes. More at https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Linux/demographics (YouGov made at least some of their profiling data available online this morning…

  Adrian McMenamin

  November 17, 2014

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  Apple, Bill Gates, branding, computer scientists, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, polling, YouGov

• 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