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Building a Research Career

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Sort Desciption: professionally and emotionally and a satisfying research career can be ... in your research community youll need at career transitions (first job ...

Content Inside: 1. INTRODUCTION The joy of research must be found in doing because every other harvest is uncertain. T. Smith If you want to make important discoveries work on important problems. P.B. Medawar This chapter is a compendium of two excellent CRA-W panels and my own experience doing research. There is a wide variation in the level of the advice given here from guidelines for pre-tenure researchers developing their first professional research programs to tips that will be relevant throughout your career. As the quotes above indicate con- ducting the research is at least as much a part of the experience as your research results. The research experience can stretch you intellectually professionally and emotionally and a satisfying research career can be well worth the effort and commitment it takes to succeed. 1.1 Why Go Into Research? Computer science and computer engineering are very exciting fields. There are many opportunities for innovation creating new technology and designing and developing new research prototypes and products in areas ranging from the most mathematical and theoretical to the most experimental. Researchers are members in a community of schol- ars and innovators. The computing research community contributes much that is important and valuable to society and a career as a com- puter science researcher can be enormously and personally satisfying. Researchers are as different as the research they do but certain attrib- utes seem to help promote research success. It helps to be: curious about the whys and hows of things persevering in your approach an independent thinker and worker creative disciplined and focused when you need to be. In this chapter we discuss practical strategies for building a research career as well as the art of doing research. 2. DOING RESEARCH Your goal as a researcher is to investigate a problem with the goal of developing a solution that advances the state of knowledge about that problem. The choice of ...

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