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Why I am so proud of our two best demo awards in 2020

by jordicabot | Nov 2, 2020 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants

This year, we got two best demo awards: Gadolinium: Monitoring Non-Functional Properties of REST APIs won the best poster/demo award at ICWE 2020 PapyGame: Let’s Play Modeling won the best demo award at Models 2020 And I’m proud of it. You may think that...

Universities need to start hiring remote researchers

by jordicabot | Sep 21, 2020 | doing research, job, Research Rants

I hate working from home every single day. And I miss a lot seeing my colleagues at the office (ok, I especially miss our coffees together, great for team building!). We don’t need to be together to write a paper or a project report but I still prefer...

I have 100K monthly visits to my research sites but my government doesn’t care

by jordicabot | Aug 17, 2020 | doing research, evaluating research, philosophy, Research Rants

Last month, I was discussing with Feli, from the budgeting team at my university, to upgrade the plan I had with WPEngine as we were paying overage charges due to excess visits. The plan was capped 100.000 thousand visits per month. And many months we were going over...

Be honest with your research tools

by jordicabot | May 2, 2019 | doing research, product development, Research Rants

Most research teams produce a considerable amount of research prototypes and proof-of-concept tools. Quality of these tools is usually low (they may lack documentation, tests, don’t scale,…) and most are abandoned after the paper for which the tool was...

Are Computer Science conferences (too) closed communities?

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...

Never cite workshop papers

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...
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