How to Have Real-World Impact: Five Easy Pieces
Five easy pieces of advice to getting your work to have real-world impact: not guaranteed to get your work adopted, but will definitely increase the odds of luck being on your side.
Archive of posts tagged: Advice
Increasing Your Research Impact
Many works present their results; this blog post seeks to aid you in developing your own great results, especially in computer architecture and systems. I learned these lessons over a career leading to an Eckert-Mauchly Award. I structure this blog post with steps of the scientific method.
Research: To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
The basic premise of research is to do something new — to boldly go where no one has gone before. This is a daunting task, especially for those who are just entering graduate school and are new to research. How exactly does one come up with these cool ideas? How...
Tips for a New Computer Architecture PhD Student
I have been fortunate enough to have many helpful senior students and two wonderful advisors to learn from throughout my PhD. Now as a senior PhD student myself, I have identified some lessons that proved most valuable as well as common mistakes made by younger...
The Role of Luck in Academic Careers
Modern academic culture is founded on perpetual evaluation and relentless ranking of researchers and their results. Obtaining competitive research funds and publishing in top-tier venues are prerequisites to a successful career. Unfortunately, as was shown by several...Subscribe
