Ensino e Investigação

sobre o processo de peer review

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

Open Issues in Organizing Computer Systems Conferences

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?

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

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

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

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