[wicknicks]

The biggest problem with CS academicians have been in their misinterpretation of computers. Its a very different field from traditional sciences like Physics, Chemistry etc.. In traditional sciences, we study the world, understand it and express those ideas formally. With computers, its upto one's imagination what they can do with it. We just get so lost in the depths of formalism, that we forget that hacking and exploration are what can break boundaries and enable people to make computers do what they could not.

Funnily, academia harbours the most brilliant minds of CS, and barely produces usable software. Its people who identify problems, and provide software/ideas who actually get things moving. Github/Blogosphere etc allow such solutions to emerge more efficiently by allowing a lot of people to look at such solutions. In academia, a publication is taken as a end point for problem solving. There are no incentives to build real software or real systems.

If computer science wants to make a difference, it must move away from its publish or perish culture.

[xyzzyz]

Computer Science is not about building real software or real systems, as opposed to Software Engineering. Your comment strikes me as missing the whole point of CS. Maybe it is so because of misleading English name -- as someone said, Computer Science is not about computers, just like Astronomy is not about telescopes -- but what kind of person would call Astronomy a Telescope Science?