Sunday, April 17, 2005
Proof of research...
Your credibility as a researcher or your worthiness as a potential employee after your doctorate is basically measured in terms of the number of publications you can list in your resume. But veterans of research life and here I am talking about the ultimate authority, the PhDcomics has time and again illustrated how you can beat the system using illustrative examples. But so far it has always been mind against mind... your capability of generating esoteric technical jargon against your fellow researchers. However, it seems that it is no longer the case... the joke go away, or I will replace you with a shell script, it seems, has indeed become a reality! A computer generated conference paper has been recently accepted in a certain conference. Does this mean that graduate students are now obsolete? More importantly does this mean that I will have to graduate soon? Should we be forming unions and demanding that the technology be banned because it will result in unemployment of so many graduate students? Or should we just be keeping our advisors in the dark and use these to generate papers and boost our conference publication list?
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Are we talking about the advisors that still run OS 9, that use versions of Canvas, Kaleidagraph or Matlab that are decades old, and that reject with all their might the use of anything but Textures? If indeed we are talking about the same people, keeping them in the dark is not going to be a difficult task at all. I say take advantage of the script yourself to get out of here as soon as possible with tons of papers on your credit
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