by Saurabh Bagchi on Nov 30, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Policy, Systems
This post takes a personalized, and hence subjective, look at the joys of doing leading edge computer systems research and development. It then delves into some of the perils of this activity, including bean counting, aka bibliometic indices that are not always kind to the work in this field. I then give some high-level suggestions for how to skirt the perils and embrace the joys.
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by Mingyu Gao on Nov 2, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Students
Effective collaboration and communication are the key to the academic success of both the advisor and the student. Unfortunately, in most cases the advisor can only afford to schedule the regular 1:1 meetings weekly or bi-weekly rather than daily. This means that in a...
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by Akshitha Sriraman on Oct 8, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Diversity, Interview, Mentoring
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the SIGOPS blog and is re-posted here with permission.] With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the systems/architecture...
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by Akshitha Sriraman on Jul 17, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Diversity, Interview, Mentoring
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the SIGOPS blog and is re-posted here with permission.] With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the...
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by David Patterson on Jul 15, 2020 | Tags: Academia, ACM SIGARCH, Conference, Industry, ISCA, Policy, Reviewing
Problem: The Disappearance of Product Papers from ISCA Industry research groups in computer architecture (like at IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA) have as much support for architectural exploration and publication as academic groups, but product groups certainly don’t. Few...
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