Monday, January 17, 2022
Soft Computing, Volume 26, Issue 2, January 2022
Friday, January 7, 2022
Soft Computing, Volume 26, Issue 1
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2022
Friday, December 24, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 29, Number 11, November 2021
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2021
Monday, December 20, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems; Volume 13, Number 4, December 2021
Friday, December 17, 2021
Weekly Review 17 December 2021
Friday, December 3, 2021
Weekly Review 3 December 2021
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 25, Issue 6, December 2021
Thursday, December 2, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 29, Issue 10
Friday, November 26, 2021
Weekly Review 26 November 2021
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2021
Thursday, November 25, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 32, Issue 10, October 2021
Friday, November 19, 2021
Weekly Review 19 November 2021
Thursday, November 18, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, Number 5, October 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Volume 5, Number 5, October 2021
Friday, November 12, 2021
Weekly Review - 12 November 2021
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about this week:
Thursday, November 11, 2021
On class differences in research
My guilty secret is that I like to browse Quora, and occasionally answer some questions. One question I wrote an answer for, was "What is it like to get a PhD when you grew up in a poor family?". Below I reproduce the answer I gave, explaining that while I wouldn't have considered myself poor by the standards of the time, I probably would be now. I also wouldn't have been able to get a PhD if I had been born twenty years later, it just wouldn't have been feasible.
For some time, whenever I went to a conference or workshop, I would ask the PhD-holding researchers I got to know, what their parents did for a living. In almost every case, their parents were professionals of some description. The number of researchers who had working-class parents, like I did, were very, very small.
This very unscientific polling leads me to believe that while improvements are being made in the diversity of researchers with respect to race and gender, the impediments caused by class to access to higher education, and ultimately becoming a researcher, are still there. It is already hard for working-class kids to access tertiary education, and the current pandemic is exacerbating that inequality. But what can we do about it?
Below is the answer I gave to the Quora question above.