On 12/29/2012 6:41 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> That's what happens to academic disciplines that depend on grants
> and contracts. The academics publish peer-reviewed articles, which
> can only be read and understood by other academics in the same field.
> But when they compete for funding, they have to appeal to executives
> who have no understanding of those publications. Therefore, they
> resort to meaningless slogans that sound good on the surface. (01)
Incidentally, while on this topic, I must share with his forum's members
the enlightening keynote presentation made by Jeff Naughton, a leading
DB researcher (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~naughton/) at ICDE 2010 (the
26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering). (02)
His site has only a pptx version, but here's a pdf version:
http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/naughtonicde.pdf ... read it, it'll be
worth your while, I guarantee it! (03)
-hak
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