Comment by wbl
12 hours ago
Depends on the subfields. CS is by publication, number theory varies ("my students can find a stapler" to the dissertation has revolutionary result not published elsewhere)
12 hours ago
Depends on the subfields. CS is by publication, number theory varies ("my students can find a stapler" to the dissertation has revolutionary result not published elsewhere)
CS can (but not frequently) have the revolutionary result you mention as well. A candidate Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme was first detailed in Craig Gentry's thesis, for example. That being said, this is much less common than a
1. literal stapler thesis, or
2. cleaned up version of a stapler thesis (e.g. rewrite of several previous publications to give broader context etc)
Cryptography is closer to math than most CS disciplines institutionally.