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 | Aug 23, 2021 | presenting, Research Rants
The research community is now discussing whether conferences should be back to being in-person, continue as virtual or follow some kind of hybrid model. I have a different proposal. I suggest taking this opportunity to “kill” a bunch of conferences. Even...
by jordicabot | Feb 24, 2021 | Research Rants, stories entrepreneur
We often complain about the challenges associated with a fruitful research-industry collaboration. The current pandemic has just aggravated them as, clearly, companies face difficult times and have mostly paused their R&I activities. In this context, we propose...
