Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers

National Research Council

National Academy Press
Washington, D.C.


Copyright © 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

ACADEMIC CAREERS FOR EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS is also available as a printed paperbound book for $27.00 (not including tax or shipping). To obtain copies, call toll free 1-800-624-6242 or 202-334-3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area) or write to National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Box 285, Washington, DC 20055. To ask questions about the availability of this book, address to BKLINE@NAS.EDU.

The files for ACADEMIC CAREERS FOR EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS are in two directories. The POSTSCRIPT directory contains the PostScript files for complete text and graphics (except for the figure in Appendix A):

FilenameChapter Title
preface.psPREFACE
execsum.psEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
chapter1.psWHAT IS EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ECSE)?
chapter2.psAN ACADEMIC CAREER IN ECSE
chapter3.psEDUCATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ACADEMIC ECSE
chapter4.psEVALUATING RESEARCH IN ECSE
chapter5.psA POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ACADEMIC ECSE
chapter6.psSPECIAL NEEDS AND CONCERNS OF NON-DOCTORATE-GRANTING AND LESS RECOGNIZED INSTITUTIONS
chapter7.psFINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
appendxa.psSURVEYING THE ECSE COMMUNITY
appendxb.psCOMPARING JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

The PostScript files were generated on Macintosh and may require some conversion for output in a DOS or UNIX PostScript environment.

The ASCII directory contains text-only files from the report:

FilenameChapter Title
front.txtFRONT MATTER AND PREFACE
execsum.txtEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
ac1.txtWHAT IS EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ECSE)?
ac2.txtAN ACADEMIC CAREER IN ECSE
ac3.txtEDUCATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ACADEMIC ECSE
ac4.txtEVALUATING RESEARCH IN ECSE
ac5.txtA POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ACADEMIC ECSE
ac6.txtSPECIAL NEEDS AND CONCERNS OF NON-DOCTORATE-GRANTING AND LESS RECOGNIZED INSTITUTIONS
ac7.txtFINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
acappa.txtSURVEYING THE ECSE COMMUNITY
acappb.txtCOMPARING JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS


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