Ensino e Investigação

Publishing a new idea

2011-10-14T16:40:00.000+01:00

O nome diz tudo. A "new idea" neste caso era a criptografia de chave pública.

Publishing a new idea

by Ralph C. Merkle

PhD Comics

2011-09-17T14:30:00.000+01:00

Vão dar um filme. Mas o melhor é a tira que ilustra a notícia na ArsTechnica:

How to Write Research Articles in Computing and Engineering Disciplines

2011-01-16T15:48:00.000Z

Editorial na IEEE TPDS
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/trans/td/2010/02/ttd2010020145.htm

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

2010-11-05T09:30:00.002Z

A very interesting paper with devastating conclusions:

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
John P. A. Ioannidis
PLoS Med, August 2005
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

Abstract:

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research.

(with thanks to André Falcão)

A Style Guide for Students Writing Papers and Reports

2010-10-09T11:23:00.000+01:00

A Style Guide for Students Writing Papers and Reports
Gernot Heiser

muito bom

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gernot/style-guide.html

Research funding: Making the cut

2010-09-25T15:04:00.001+01:00

Research funding: Making the cut

Published online 22 September 2010 | Nature 467, 383-385 (2010) | doi:10.1038/467383a

Careers are made and broken by grant-funding committees. So how are the key decisions really made?

Kendall Powell

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100922/full/467383a.html

Links interessantes

2010-09-04T10:16:00.000+01:00

Academic Productivity blog

Productivity tips, tricks and hacks for academics

10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.

How to get your papers accepted

2010-01-22T11:15:00.002Z

Muito bom, leitura essencial para alunos de doutoramento:

How to get your papers accepted

só os tópicos:

1. Spellchcek.
2. Get the English right.
3. Make the figures readable!
4. "Related work" is not just a list of citations.
5. Make sure the intro kicks ass.
6. Get to the point.
7. State your contributions!
8. Don't bullshit.

Portuguese Research-Universities: Why Not The Best?

2009-09-02T09:45:00.003+01:00

Apresentação:
http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~rfern/athans/

Artigo:
ATHANS, Michael (2002), "Universidades portuguesas: por que não as melhores?”, Gazeta de Física, vol.25, fascículo 1, Abril. Disponível aqui (PDF)

sobre o processo de peer review

2009-05-13T18:19:00.001+01:00

Conference reviewing considered harmful
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Volume 43 , Issue 2 (April 2009)

This paper develops a model of computer systems research to help prospective authors understand the often obscure workings of conference program committees. We present data to show that the variability between reviewers is often the dominant factor as to whether a paper is accepted. We argue that paper merit is likely to be zipf distributed, making it inherently difficult for program committees to distinguish between most papers. We use game theory to show that with noisy reviews and zipf merit, authors have an incentive to submit papers too early and too often. These factors make conference reviewing, and systems research as a whole, less efficient and less effective. We describe some recent changes in conference design to address these issues, and we suggest some further potential improvements.

Research Evaluation for Computer Science

2009-05-11T09:31:00.001+01:00

artigo interessante na Communications of the ACM:

Research Evaluation for Computer Science
Reassessing the assessment criteria and techniques traditionally used in evaluating computer science research effectiveness.

Bertrand Meyer, Christine Choppy, Jørgen Staunstrup, Jan van Leeuwen

Communications of the ACM
Vol. 52 No. 4, Pages 31-34

A Arte de Escrever Artigos Científicos

2009-04-30T16:37:00.002+01:00

"A Arte de Escrever Artigos Científicos"... para iniciados:
http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~mirella/doku.php?id=escrita
(Prof. Mirella M. Moro, UFMG)

orientação de alunos de doutoramento

2009-04-14T16:30:00.001+01:00

Dois artigos muito interessantes sobre o assunto. Tirados da CACM de Março 2009:

Your Students Are Your Legacy

This Viewpoint boils down into a few magazine pages what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students.

David A. Patterson

Pages 30-33

Advising Students for Success

Some advice for those doing the advising (and what the advisors can learn from the advisees).

Jeffrey D. Ullman

Pages 34-37

reviews de artigos

2009-04-14T16:22:00.000+01:00

Genial:

How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer
Graham Cormode

ACM SIGMOD Record archive

Volume 37 , Issue 4 (December 2008)

Pages 100-104

rankings de universidades

2009-01-27T13:12:00.002Z

BREAKING RANKS: ASSESSING QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The OECD international forum designed for higher education institutions
imhe info Dec. 2008

a good paper, according to the SOSP cfp

2009-01-21T09:58:00.002Z

A good paper will demonstrate that the authors:

are attacking a significant problem,
have devised an interesting, compelling solution,
have demonstrated the practicality and benefits of the solution,
have drawn appropriate conclusions,
have clearly described what they have done, and
have clearly articulated the advances beyond previous work.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness.

source: SOSP'09 CFP

How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia

2008-07-04T14:32:00.000+01:00

David A. Patterson
(OSDI '94 Keynote Address)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~lepreau/osdi94/keynote/abstract.html

Technical Writing Advice and Resources

2008-07-04T14:17:00.000+01:00

At Priya Narasimhan's web site:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~priya/tech-writing.html

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin

2008-07-01T14:05:00.001+01:00

Boletim do ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=J688&coll=portal&dl=ACM&type=periodical&idx=J688&part=newsletter&WantType=Newsletters&title=ACM%20SIGCSE%20Bulletin&CFID=76051702&CFTOKEN=21737305

Open Issues in Organizing Computer Systems Conferences

2008-07-01T14:02:00.000+01:00

interessante:

Open Issues in Organizing Computer Systems Conferences
Jeffrey C. Mogul and Tom Anderson
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Volume 38 , Issue 3 (July 2008)

The Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
for Computer Systems (WOWCS) was organized to “bring
together conference organizers (past, present, and future) and other
interested people to discuss the issues they confront.” In conjunction
with WOWCS, we survey some previous publications that
discuss open issues related to organizing computer systems conferences,
especially concerning conduct and management of the
review process. We also list some topics about which we wish
WOWCS had received submissions, but did not; these could be
good topics for future articles.

What is it like to write a technical book?

2008-06-23T14:45:00.003+01:00

um artigo longo e interessante:

What is it like to write a technical book?
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book/

A Perspective on Computing Research Management

2008-05-12T13:23:00.001+01:00

A Perspective on Computing Research Management
Roy Levin
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

This paper offers a perspective on a particular set of principles
that have guided the development and enabled the success of several
noteworthy corporate research labs in computer science. The
paper examines the differences between the corporate computing
research environment and academia, then describes the model for
managing research that Microsoft Research employs, illustrating
how it reflects those differences and what the consequences are.

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Volume 41 , Issue 2 (April 2007)

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1243418.1243420

Sugestões para alunos de doutoramento

2008-04-28T15:47:00.003+01:00

Muito interessante, útil e escrito num estilo divertido:

Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student
Manuel Blum

Amostras:

I once asked UMESH VAZIRANI how he was able,
as an undergraduate at MIT,
to take 6 courses each and every semester.
He said that he knew he didn't have the time to work out his answers the hard way.
He had to find a shortcut.
You see, Umesh understood that problems often have short clever solutions.

There's a wonderful quote from ANATOLE FRANCE:
"A University Student"
-- and this is especially true for a PhD Student --
"should know something about everything
and everything about something."

Software para académicos

2008-04-21T17:37:00.002+01:00

AcademHack
Tech Tools for Academics
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/

Como apresentar um artigo

2008-04-21T15:02:00.000+01:00

útil e mordaz, no estilo habitual do autor:

HOW TO PRESENT A PAPER
Leslie Lamport
4 August 1979

Apresentações

2008-04-21T14:00:00.001+01:00

Blog Presentation Zen

Recursos sobre ensino universitário

2008-04-21T13:50:00.002+01:00

em Carnegie Mellon:

http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/

Alguns recursos no site:
Teaching principles
Design and teach your course

Conselhos para alunos de doutoramento

2008-04-20T19:38:00.001+01:00

Some Advice for Getting Through Graduate School
Georgia Tech, College of Computing

Escrever, apresentar etc.

Leitura de artigos

2008-04-20T19:36:00.001+01:00

How to Read a Research Paper

Paper Reading Check List
Sugih Jamin

Mais sobre escrita de artigos

2008-04-20T19:35:00.000+01:00

How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM
by Craig Partridge

Revisão de artigos

2008-04-20T19:27:00.002+01:00

Três artigos sobre revisão de artigos:

The Task of the Referee
Alan Jay Smith
University of California at Berkeley

Outros interessantes:
Teaching reviewing to graduate students
Jens Palsberg, Scott J. Baxter
Purdue University

A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science
Ian Parberryy
University of North Texas

Alguns recursos sobre escrita de artigos

2008-04-20T19:18:00.002+01:00

6 critérios (da CFP do OSDI'08):

originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness

Da mesma CFP:

A good paper will:

* consider a significant problem
* propose an interesting, compelling solution
* demonstrate the practicality and benefits of the solution
* draw appropriate conclusions
* clearly describe what the authors have done
* clearly articulate the advances beyond previous work

A conferência EuroSys tem organizado um workshop para ajudar alunos de doutoramento na escrita de aritgos. O site da edição de 2006 tem os slides apresentados num painel que são muito interessantes:

The First EuroSys Authoring Workshop

Plágio no ensino superior português

2008-04-20T19:14:00.001+01:00

College Cheating in Portugal: Results from a Large Scale Survey
Maria de Fátima Rocha (frocha@ufp.pt) (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto and Universidade Fernando Pessoa)
Aurora A.C. Teixeira (ateixeira@fep.up.pt) (CEMPRE, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto)

Um estudo sobre o tema.

Um blog muito interessante: Tomorrow's Professor

2008-04-20T19:09:00.002+01:00

Tomorrow's Professor Blog
Criado por professores do MIT e Stanford. Discussões relacionadas com ensino universitário.

Porque é que os alunos não vão às aulas?

2008-04-20T19:04:00.003+01:00

Why Students Don't Attend Class
Tom Clay and Lori Breslow

"Are you dissatisfied with the attendance at your lectures? Do you wonder what your students are thinking when they skip your lectures? If you answered “yes” to either question, you’ll be interested in what 47 undergraduates said in response to a recent email survey on their attitudes toward attending lectures. "

O que é que influencia a aprendizagem?

2008-04-20T18:56:00.002+01:00

Influences on Student Learning
John Hattie, Univ. of Auckland

"Both educational communities work behind closed doors, coming out to discuss kids, curricula,
accountability, and each other, but rarely discussing the fundamental tenets about their teaching that leads to positive impacts on student learning."