Academic careers for experimental computer scientists and engineers [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827559103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1994
• ISBN: 1-280-21124-5; 9786610211241; 0-309-58568-6; 0-585-08563-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (152 p.)
• Disciplina: 004.2373
• Soggetti: Computer science - Vocational guidance; Computer engineering - Vocational guidance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE NATURE OF EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING""; ""ECSE AND THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT""; ""PROVIDING A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT FOR ECSE FACULTY""; ""1 What Is Experimental Computer Science and Engineering? ""; ""ORGANIZATION AND SCOPE OF THIS REPORT""; ""COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING""; ""DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF ECSE""; ""ECSE Is a Synthetic Discipline""; ""ECSE Focuses Primarily on Artifacts""; ""Proof of Performance""; ""Proof of Concept""""Proof of Existence""; ""Summary""; ""The Artifacts of ECSE Are Extraordinarily Complex""; ""ECSE Is Sensitive to Technological Developments""; ""Computing Artifacts Are Universal""; ""ECSE Is Not Strongly Coupled to Theoretical Computer Science""; ""A Succinct Definition of Experimental Computer Science and Engineering""; ""MORE ON ARTIFACTS""; ""COMPARISONS WITH OTHER ; FIELDS""; ""WHY UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PERFORM ECSE RESEARCH""; ""2 An Academic Career in ECSE ""; ""GOALS OF RESEARCH IN ECSE""; ""RESOURCES FOR ECSE RESEARCH""; ""Equipment and Software""; ""Staying on the Cutting Edge in Equipment""""Dedicated Computing Systems""; ""Specialized Systems""; ""Space""; ""Maintaining the Research Environment""; ""Graduate Students""; ""Staff Support""; ""Access to Collaborators and Other Experimental Systems""; ""Funding""; ""Time""; ""Building Complex Artifacts""; ""Building a Research Laboratory""; ""Building Industrial Relationships""; ""Graduating Doctoral Students""; ""Recovering from Wrong Turns and Dead Ends, and from Being Scooped""; ""Building a Reputation""; ""THE RELATIONSHIP OF RESEARCH SCALE TO INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""3 Educational Dimensions of Academic ECSE """"KEEPING COURSES CURRENT""; ""EVALUATING STUDENT WORK""; ""STUDENT-FACULTY RATIOS""; ""SUPERVISING NON-PH.D. GRADUATE STUDENTS""; ""4 Evaluating Research in ECSE ""; ""PUBLICATION AND OTHER FORMS OF DISSEMINATION""; ""Publications""; ""Journals""; ""Conferences""; ""Artifacts as a Medium for Dissemination""; ""THEORETICIANS' AND EXPERIMENTALISTS' VIEWS ON EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH""; ""THE EFFECT OF EVALUATION ON PROBLEM CHOICES AND RESEARCH AREA""; ""A NOTE ON OTHER DISCIPLINES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""5 A Positive Environment for Academic ECSE ""; ""MENTORING AND ADVOCACY""""Mentoring""; ""Advocacy""; ""DESIDERATA FOR THE TENURE AND PROMOTION PROCESS""; ""Publications""; ""Artifacts""; ""Review Letters""; ""Funding History""; ""Other considerations in the T&P Process""; ""Ph.D. Students""; ""Consulting""; ""Workshops""; ""Teaching""; ""Service""; ""INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENT""; ""6 Special Needs and Concerns of Non-Doctorate-Granting and Less Recognized Institutions ""; ""MISSION""; ""SIZE""; ""RESOURCES""; ""MODELS FOR CONDUCTING ECSE RESEARCH AT NPHD SCHOOLS""; ""Proof-of-Performance Research""; ""Collaborative Research""