On 12/29/2012 9:15 AM, Hassan Aït-Kaci wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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!
>
> -hak (01)
And to conclude, this hilarious (genuine) letter of a frustrated author
to the editor of the Journal of Systems and Software:
http://eloquentscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Frustrated_author.pdf
... - and no, it wasn't me! ... (02)
-hak
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