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born 1948 United States

Norman Saul Matloff (born December 16, 1948) is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Thomas M.

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Also known as: Norm Matloff

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The contest doesn't rank talent in the same way we identify the fastest hurdlers or longest jumpers.

Project-oriented contests such as Intel aren't measures of scientific brilliance

Three of the president’s proposals target tech. This is especially true in that the foreign workers are overwhelmingly young, thus exacerbating the rampant age discrimination that we already have in the tech world

most top science and math students don't participate in such national contests.

There is even a how-to book, "Success With Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research,"

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that the Intel competition "identifies and honors the top math and science students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems."

Professor Miriam Rafailovich... told me ...that the contestants "get massive coaching from the schools

A past winner ... told the STEM education newsletter Metroplex Math Circle about choosing among projects offered by her university mentor

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Matloff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.