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How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia

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Sort Desciption: Part IV: Key Advice on Alternatives to a Bad Career Post ... Advisor is only interested in his or her own career not yours ...

Content Inside: DAP Spr.98 UCB 1 Lecture 20: How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Professor David A. Patterson Computer Science 252 Spring 1998 DAP Spr.98 UCB 2 Review: Parallel Processors Caches contain all information on state of cached memory blocks Snooping and Directory Protocols similar; bus makes snooping easier because of broadcast (snooping => uniform memory access) Directory has extra data structure to keep track of state of all cache blocks Distributing directory => scalable shared address multiprocessor => Cache coherent Non uniform memory access DAP Spr.98 UCB 3 Outline Part I: Key Advice for a Bad Careerwhile a Grad Student Part II: Key Advice on Alternatives to a Bad Graduate Career Part III: Key Advice for a Bad Career Post PhD Part IV: Key Advice on Alternatives to a Bad Career Post PhD Topics covered in parts III and IV Selecting a Problem Picking a Solution Performing the Research Evaluating the Results Communicating Results Transferring technology DAP Spr.98 UCB 4 Part I: How to Have a Bad Graduate Career Concentrate on getting good grades: postpone research involment: might lower GPA Minimize number and flavors of courses Why take advatange of 1 of the top departments with an emphasis on excellent grad courses? Why take advantage of a campus with 35/36 courses in the top 10? May affect GPA Dont trust your advisor Advisor is only interested in his or her own career not yours Advisor may try to mentor youuse up time interfering with GPA Only work the number of hours per week you are paid! Dont let master class exploit the workers! DAP Spr.98 UCB 5 Part I: How to Have a Bad Graduate Career Concentrate on graduating as fast as possible Winner is first in class to PhD People only care about that you have a PhD and your GPA not on what you know Nirvana: graduating in 3.5 years with a 4.0 GPA! Dont spend a summer in industry: takes longer How could industry experience help with selecting PhD topic? Dont ...

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