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Ellen Spertus
Professor of Computer Science
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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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Why are Android popup messages called toasts? [closed]
Feb 27, 2011
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Is multi-thread output from System.out.println interleaved
Feb 27, 2012
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Javadoc in Eclipse failing to recognize packages
Mar 4, 2011
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Is there a convention for showing overridden methods in UML static class diagrams?
Mar 8, 2015
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What does ic_launcher stand for?
Jan 30, 2014
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How to exclude certain files from Android Studio gradle builds?
Jan 27, 2017
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Source code for the Java library classes
Feb 9, 2012
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Getting the pixel color value of a point on an Android View that includes a Bitmap-backed Canvas
Jun 7, 2011
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Remote debugging over USB with Android Phone is stuck in "Waiting for browser..."
Mar 19, 2020
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How to get the JDK path in Gradle within Android Studio?
Sep 11, 2019
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Is it appropriate to edit someone else's answer for politeness?
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Is it better to lie to students or to be pedantic when teaching Intro CS?
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Do authors have to be politically correct in article-writing?
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Why are they called breadboards?
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Is praising students' aptitude harmful?
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Why do computer-science majors learn calculus?