Startups and CMU
Is Carnegie Mellon a good university to go to if you plan on working for or building a startup? That's the question I was recently asked by somebody from the Quora team. I'm frequently asked similar...
View ArticleAmerica's Next Top Nerd
I want to make a computer science reality TV show. Like in most reality shows, the participants would compete to win a prize, but since they would be CS nerds, we won't aim for something as crazy as...
View ArticleOutsourcing My Research Group
A PhD student at Carnegie Mellon costs approximately $80,000 per year. (Research programmers and post-docs cost about the same.) Given that PhD students have to take classes for the first couple of...
View ArticleResearch versus Teaching
My previous post stirred some people's emotions. Reading the comments, it seems part of that came from the tension between teaching and research in modern American universities. In most countries, the...
View ArticleWork and the Internet
For context about why I care, here is a slight paraphrasing from grant proposal I recently wrote:For the last eight years, I have been working to develop an area of computer science called "human...
View ArticleIrresponsible Push
Inspired by a popular internet company whose name I won't reveal here (you know who you are), the GWAP Web site team has started following a software engineering technique that I'm calling...
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