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...
by jordicabot | May 2, 2019 | Research Rants, doing research, product development
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...
by jordicabot | Jan 31, 2019 | doing research, Research Rants
CONTEXT: In some domains (as mine), many research works end up with a prototype implementation of the research results. This prototype is usually released using some kind of open source license so that the community can benefit from it. In AtlanMod , we are very proud...
by jordicabot | Oct 1, 2018 | Research Rants, publishing
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 | Mar 21, 2017 | publishing, evaluating research, 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 3, 2016 | doing research, presenting, Research Rants, social, Uncategorized
It’s time for all you to set your goals for this year we’re starting. Let me add one to your to-do list: Have a strong presence online!!!! This goal has four big advantages over any other goal you may have set to accomplish this year: It’s simple...