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Ellen Spertus
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I am a computer science professor at Mills College. I used to work at Google on projects such as App Inventor (which I still contribute to), Blockly, and the Hour of Code. I have done research in computer architecture, compilers, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and data mining.

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Do authors have to be politically correct in article-writing?
Feb 25, 2019
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Is praising students' aptitude harmful?
May 20, 2015
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How to deal with an advisor who wants a "friendlier" relationship with me than I do?
Sep 20, 2014
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Is there a way to save my students money on a textbook?
Nov 23, 2014
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Why does a university course become defunct?
Nov 24, 2016
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How should I decline a referee request for the paper which I refereed before?
May 28, 2018
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Strategy for revealing pregnancy to new department/department chair
Aug 7, 2017
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Do goofs in a recommendation letter hurt a student applying for grad school?
Apr 30, 2014
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What should I do if I accepted a review request based on paper title, but then found out it touches on topics I don't know?
Jun 8, 2017
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How many free copies of a textbook is a publisher typically willing to provide?
May 25, 2015
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Should the definition of the tag "professors" be changed?
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Is it better to lie to students or to be pedantic when teaching Intro CS?
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Is multi-thread output from System.out.println interleaved
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Why are they called breadboards?
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Why do computer-science majors learn calculus?
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How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?