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Their wordsin all manners of systems software, the leading edge of innovation is in deployed, production, open source systems.
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Computer science erred by insisting on conferences rather than journals as a publishing vehicle.
Their wordsmy keynote, A Wardrobe for the Emperor, outlined my belief that computer science had erred grievously in insisting upon conferences (rather than journals) as a publishing vehicle
Their wordsit felt like some decline of USENIX's in-person conference model was inevitable.
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