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"The contest doesnt rank talent in the same way we identify the fastest hurdlers or longest jumpers."
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Norman Matloff"In case after case, we see tech titans and entrepreneurs misbehaving or breaking the law. They push the boundary of acceptable or ethical behavior that most of us have to play by. Even if some of them provide the technologies of tomorrow, it doesn’t mean they can operate under different set of rule"
Norman Saul Matloff is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.
"The contest doesnt rank talent in the same way we identify the fastest hurdlers or longest jumpers."
"Project-oriented contests such as Intel arent measures of scientific brilliance"
"many contestants have immigrant parents"
"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."
"A past winner ... told the STEM education newsletter Metroplex Math Circle about choosing among projects offered by her university mentor"
"Professor Miriam Rafailovich... told me ...that the contestants "get massive coaching from the schools"