by jordicabot | Oct 1, 2018 | publishing, Research Rants
In this Communications of the ACM column we discuss whether research conferences in computer science are too close to new members trying to join the ranks, especially when these new members try to enter the community “alone” (i.e. not publishing together...
by jordicabot | Sep 12, 2017 | marketing, stories entrepreneur, website creation
I, like many of you, fell into the trap of believing that getting new emails from visitors was my most important path to success. And that I had to get it done no matter what. In fact, this is what any marketing guru will tell you. So I follow suit and added an email...
by jordicabot | Sep 11, 2017 | funding, Research Rants
After the UML serenity prayer, the second most important prayer in my life is the following Academic Research Serenity Prayer by Micah Allen God grant me the serenity to accept that I will not get this grant, the courage to write it anyway, & the wisdom to know...
by jordicabot | Mar 21, 2017 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants
I have the feeling that more and more people cite workshop papers to sustain their claims. As if workshop papers were peer-reviewed. They are not. At most, they are “peer-filtered” (meaning that the PC of the workshop checked the work to make sure authors...
by jordicabot | Jan 8, 2017 | customers, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, it computes how well the test suite you are using to test the quality of the code covers all parts (statements/conditions/…) of that code. Obviously, the higher your code coverage the lower...
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