In one of my classes (a year or so ago) we read a paper by someone I happened to know in another context. I found myself shocked to be reading university publis

In one of my classes (a year or so ago) we read a paper by someone I happened to know in another context. I found myself shocked to be reading university published material by an acquaintance. I mentioned this to a friend and he related the same thoughts as you. CS is a young enough field that many of its original researchers are still around, unlike a lot of its sibling fields of study.