Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in many threads about academic incentives, paper counts and why academia struggles to produce working software.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Topic

academic research incentives

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Yes, this is a development that has happened over time and has become pretty severe. Michael Stonebraker has written/talked about this in the context of DBMS research, but to me the same issues are applicable to other fields as well. Slides: [LINK] Talk: [VIDEO] In …

• > academia’s ideal role is to simply advance human understanding in interesting ways Yes and no. This is an engineering science. In a pure science, the world is out there to explore and find out about, constraining what you do. An engineering science is very …

• I often go back to this talk from Michael Stonebraker about, in his terms, the diarrhea of papers [1]. It's difficult to justify time towards anything that doesn't lead to a near-term publication or another line on your CV. [1] [VIDEO]