Resumen
In discussions with computer scientists from around the world, the risk of deciding careers through distorted instruments comes out as a top concern. In the US it is mitigated by the influence of the Computing Research Association's 1999 "best practices" report. Research is a competitive endeavor. Researchers are accustomed to constant assessment: any work submitted -- even, sometimes, invited -- is peer-reviewed; rejection is frequent, even for senior scientists. Once published, a researcher's work will be regularly assessed against that of others. Computer science concerns itself with the representation and processing of information using algorithmic techniques. CS research often combines aspects of engineering and natural sciences as well as mathematics. An issue of concern to computer scientists is the tendency to use publication databases that do not adequately cover CS. Scientists are taught rigor: submit any hypothesis to scrutiny, any experiment to duplication, any theorem to independent proof.