by jordicabot | Aug 7, 2022 | industry relations, Research Rants
We often hear that researchers are disconnected from reality. That what we do has little practical application. We all universally agree on the benefits of industry-research collaboration, even more on the software field. But my feeling is that the burden of starting...
by jordicabot | Jul 4, 2022 | organizing, Research Rants
There are endless discussions about the future of research conferences, especially around whether they should be back to how they were in pre-covid times or whether they should evolve to an hybrid format or remain fully virtual. There are many pros and cons for each...
by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2022 | philosophy, publishing, Research Rants
More and more papers are published every year. Just look at the graphic above (and DBLP already does a good job in filtering out most predatory journals!). It’s probably true that we publish more high-quality research than ever. But it’s also true that we...
by jordicabot | Mar 21, 2022 | Research Rants, stories entrepreneur, writing
Paraphrasing Reid Hoffman famous saying: “You may have heard me say: If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late”, I’m confident to say: If you’re not ashamed of your blog post, you...
by jordicabot | Feb 16, 2022 | stories entrepreneur
We always complain about vendor lock-in. And try to “escape” it by using open-source tools or making sure the vendors offer clear export options in case we want to leave at some point. But sometimes we forget that we may be the “evil vendor”...
