Tag: Evergreen
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Strategic issues when hiring professors
I have always wondered what makes a good hiring strategy for professors at a computer science department. Here are my thoughts on two dimensions: Core strength or best you can get? A common strategy is to double down on your strengths and hire more of the same. For example, at my engineering faculty, there are…
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The Uni1 project (2016)
Abstract: The aim of this project outline is to describe how universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) can work with businesses to conduct teaching projects for and with students. Both parties stand to benefit; the projects generate recruitment, outsourcing and innovation (ROI) for businesses and provide HEIs with new partners for cooperation, a source…
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Alternative definition of theoretical saturation in qualitative research
Theoretical Saturation: The mental state of a researcher wanting to finish up the work and go home for the holidays.
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How my Ph.D. students work with supporting students (Hint: not Scrum)
As mentioned in a previous blog post, my Ph.D. students are often experienced software developers who take on the role of a chief programmer in the development of the software system supporting their research. In this work, at any point in time, each of my Ph.D. students is typically supported by 2-7 Bachelor and Master…
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Chief programmer teams alive and well in academia
According to Wikipedia, “a chief programmer team is a programming team organized in a star around a “chief” role, granted to the software engineer who understands the system’s intentions the best. Other team members get supporting roles.” Amusingly, this set-up is alive and well in academia, and for good reason. At least my research group…
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What’s better: Submit to ICSE or TSE? (Conference or journal?)
When planning a publication strategy for a dissertation, invariably the question comes up where to submit your papers. Ph.D. students naturally are biased towards conferences, because if a paper gets accepted to a conference they get to travel to a (usually) nice place. I nip this bias in the bud right away: For a journal…