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The Refreshingly Rewarding Realm of Research Pa...

Sean Cribbs
October 09, 2015

The Refreshingly Rewarding Realm of Research Papers

Have you ever run into a thorny problem that makes your code slow or complicated, for which there is no obvious solution? Have you ever needed a data structure that your language’s standard library didn’t provide? You might need to implement a research paper!

While much of research in Computer Science doesn’t seem relevant to your everyday web application, all of those tools and techniques you use daily originally came from research! In this talk we’ll learn why you might want to read and implement research papers, how to read them for relevant information, and how to translate what they describe into code and test the results. Finally, we’ll discuss examples of research implementation I’ve been involved in and the relationships I’ve built with researchers in the process.

Sean Cribbs

October 09, 2015
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  1. The Refreshingly Rewarding Realm of Research Papers Sean Cribbs @seancribbs

    Comcast Cable CityCode Chicago - October 9, 2015
  2. Interview What accomplishment are you most proud of? I helped

    put CRDTs into Riak. Ok, but we don’t spend our time here implementing research papers. WAT
  3. First pass Title, abstract and introduction Section headings Conclusions References

    24 http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf CC BY-SA 2.0 catherinecronin
  4. Second Pass Read more closely Proofs, graphs, figures Mark unread

    references 25 http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf CC BY-SA 2.0 catherinecronin
  5. Third pass Step through closely Challenge all assumptions Compare thought

    processes 26 http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf CC BY-SA 2.0 Nic McPhee
  6. At the End Summarize in 1-2 sentences Outline major contributions

    Note strengths / weaknesses 27 CC BY 2.0 Jacob Bøtter