An Academic's Observations from a Sabbatical at Google
Software Engineering
2018-08-29 v1
Authors:
Adam Barker
Abstract
How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.
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@article{arxiv.1808.09199,
title = {An Academic's Observations from a Sabbatical at Google},
author = {Adam Barker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09199},
year = {2018}
}
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Preprint which appears in Communications of the ACM, August 2018, Vol. 61 No. 9, Pages 31-33
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