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Showing posts with label research craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research craft. Show all posts
Monday, November 8, 2021

Three helpful stories

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Having spent a big chunk of my working life teaching, I've learned how valuable metaphors can be when communicating. Some of the most ef...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Bias in AI

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When my daughter was a toddler, we bought her a batch of Looney Tunes DVDs. She loved watching Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Bugs Bunny. On her...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Cargo Cult Computer Science

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I recently attended a presentation by a post-graduate student that I thought was a little bit funny. The presentation was about the experime...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Examining Postgraduate Theses

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I've examined a number of postgraduate theses by this point in my career. These are Doctoral and Master's theses from New Zealand an...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Measurement Theory

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Just because something is expressed as a number, doesn't mean you can do arithmetic with it. Let's say I give you three numbers: 1,2...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Video: How to publish your research in IEEE CIS publications

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A panel discussion on how to publish in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's publications . This discussion wraps up the indivi...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Simon M. Lucas

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Professor Simon M. Lucas talks about how to publish research in IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Chin-Teng Lin

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Professor Chin-Teng Lin , who is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems , speaks about publishing in that journal. This t...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Garrison Greenwood

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Professor Garrison Greenwood talks about how to publish your research in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation . This talk was ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Derong Liu

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Professor Derong Liu talks about how to publish your research in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems at a panel ses...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Kay Chen Tan

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A video of a talk by Professor Kay Chen Tan as part of a panel session at the CEC 2013 conference. In this video he describes the IEEE CIS...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Xin Yao

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This is a video of a talk given by Professor Xin Yao as part of a panel session at the CEC 2013 conference. A couple of the most salient p...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Down with middlemen!

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If there is one thing that the rise of e-commerce sites like eBay and Amazon.com has shown it is that the middleman is doomed. Entire booksh...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

On Being a Post-doc

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After completing a PhD, most people who wish to stay in academia end up doing one or more post-doctoral positions. Experience as a post-doc ...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Guest post: Write Right First Time with Brown's Eight Questions

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This is a guest post by Stephen G. Matthews . Stephen is a PhD student in the Centre for Computational Intelligence at De Montfort Universi...
Monday, August 13, 2012

The problem with academic journals 6

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In my previous posts on academic journals (see here , here , here , here , here , and here ) I've discussed the major problem with acade...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Fraud in science

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Ars Technica has a slightly tongue-in-cheek article on how to commit scientific fraud and get away with it. The article discusses eight poi...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Publishing and perishing under gameable metrics 2

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This article about the Australian Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative discusses how the process by which Australian unive...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Publishing and perishing under gameable metrics

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My alma mater is in the New Zealand news again , and again it is to do with gaming the metrics by which the research performance of New Ze...
Monday, May 21, 2012

The problem with academic journals: An update

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 A brief update on the status of the Elsevier boycott (described here ): to date, more than 11 000 academics have pledged to not review, su...