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...
by jordicabot | Nov 27, 2014 | funny, publishing, Research Rants
This didn’t happen to a fried (or a friend of a friend…). This happened to me. I’m just removing personal details of the person that sent the email (“hate the deed, not the doer” or whatever works as the English translation of the Spanish...
by jordicabot | Nov 13, 2014 | publishing, Research Rants
The other day we tried to submit a journal paper summarizing the PhD work of one of my students. He had published a couple of conference papers and one workshop paper covering specific parts of his work and, after the PhD, he wanted to write a journal paper presenting...
by jordicabot | Sep 5, 2014 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
I’m really enjoying the book Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others and I strongly recommend it to any software developer out there but that’s not why I’m mentioning it here. I’m doing it because it includes a...
by jordicabot | Aug 4, 2014 | organization, publishing, Research Rants
In the opening session of any conference, the PC Chairs give a brief presentation of the conference. This typically includes informing about the number of abstracts and full papers submitted, the number of papers accepted, the corresponding acceptance rate and some...
by jordicabot | Jun 27, 2014 | organization, presenting, Research Rants
On Tuesday, I attended this workshop and I really enjoyed it a lot. The difference with other workshops? This workshop was by invitation (open to all the particpiants in the ASE PC Board meeting taking place the day after) so no call for papers, no publications of any...
