Summary: How to Have a Bad CareerHow to Have a Bad Career
in Research/Academiain Research/Academia
Professor David A. Patterson
Feburary 2002
www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/nontech.html
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Outline
· Part I: Key Advice for a Bad Career
· Part II: Key Advice on Alternatives to a Bad Career
· Topics covered in Part II
­ Selecting a Problem
­ Picking a Solution
­ Performing the Research
­ Evaluating the Results
­ Communicating Results
­ Transferring Technology
· Career Advice from Richard Hamming and Ivan Sutherland
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Bad Career Move #1: Be THE leading expert
· Invent a new field!

Source: Abdallah, Chaouki T- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico

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