Applied research gets no respect…
What people care about is
what changes their lives…
MAPGEN
Cyber Security
Web services
Manufacturing…
LITA
Autominder
Thanks to Kanna Rajan for the figures.
Pléiades
Trajectory: Robotics
RoboCup Goal:
By the year 2050
develop a team of
fully autonomous
humanoid robots
that can win
against the human
world soccer
champion team
Quic kTime™ and a
TIFF (Unc ompres sed) dec ompres sor
are needed to see this pic ture.
Don’t forget…
• A technical committee is elected
and steers toward the goal via
rule changes, new leagues, and
competitions
• Simple success criteria
• Scientific progress is encouraged
by awards for Symposium papers
• Competition motivates students
• Prestige and encouragment for
researchers to participate
Thanks to Paul Cohen
for the original of this slide.
Sometimes you aren’t told
what you want to hear…
Reviewers
• Don’t expect
experimental control
• Think differently about
review criteria
• Consider relevance to
long term goals of field
and what is learned
about applicability of
current techniques
Authors
• Explain: what worked
well, what needed to be
changed/enhanced,
what you learned and
your guess(?) of why
• Make available data or
code (when possible) or
at least provide detailed
descriptions on a
website
How blocks should be used…