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Ellen Spertus

San Francisco, CA

http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/cs/spertus/spertus.php

I teach computer science at Mills College and used to work at Google on projects such as App Inventor, 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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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

java multithreading synchronization printstream asked Feb 27, 2012 at 3:23

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Why are they called breadboards?

breadboard terminology asked Nov 8, 2012 at 21:51

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Is praising students' aptitude harmful?

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How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?

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Usability issue: Comment voting policy negatively affects people with minor tremor

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Why is the default process creation mechanism fork?

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Why did the percentage of CS bachelor's degrees going to women peak in 1984?

social-context equity asked Jul 23, 2017 at 17:54

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Has Little Endian won?

standards protocol computer-architecture numbers endianness asked Sep 23, 2012 at 17:29

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Is there a way to save my students money on a textbook?

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Do authors have to be politically correct in article-writing?

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Why do computer-science majors learn calculus?

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How to deal with an advisor who wants a "friendlier" relationship with me than I do?

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Should test cases be made available to students for assessed assignments?

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Is it bad practice to use your real name online?

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Visual Programming languages

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Why does a university course become defunct?

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How should I decline a referee request for the paper which I refereed before?

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How important is learning Binary for first-year college students?

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How to prepare students for bias in industry

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How does branch prediction work?

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Strategy for revealing pregnancy to new department/department chair

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Source code for the Java library classes

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Support for gender pronouns

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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?

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How to deal with students that don't like CS?

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Remote debugging over USB with Android Phone is stuck in "Waiting for browser..."

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How to end a letter beginning with "To whom it may concern"

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What rate of faculty turnover is healthy?

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Ask how to pronounce advisor's last name?

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How to provide individual grades for group project work?

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Why doesn't Eclipse generate javadoc for all classes

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How do you encourage students to take criticism of their code constructively?

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How do you get a bad transcript past Ph.D. admissions?

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How do I convince my students that visual programming is real programming?

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Can “thanks in advance” be considered rude?

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Can an owner/admin on a free Slack view private channels?

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Which is more important for PhD applicants — Quality or quantity of research papers?

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How can I show the value of best practices?

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How can I make sure I (a white male teaching math) am sensitive to "underprivileged" students in my class?

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