In my previous post, I outlined how artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential threat to higher education. That article sparked many conversations, and one recurring question stood out: What should universities actually do to prepare? This post is my answer. Even before AI, college enrollments were projected to decline, driven …
I’ve been a professor working on the frontiers of AI for about a decade. I consider training and mentoring the next generation of engineers and scientists to be a great privilege, and I think conducting scientific research is one of the most noble of pursuits towards the advancement of humanity. …
The film “2001: A Space Odyssey” turns 50 this year. In the movie an artificial general intelligence (AGI) named HAL 9000 (Hal) performs many of a spaceship’s functions. Hal explicitly says he is “foolprool and incapable of error,” but later the crew determines he has made an error and decides …
Jeff Huang posted a bunch of computer science professor hiring statistics on his site. Unlike the statistics I gathered previously (see this post and this one), he had his students use crowdsourcing so he has a much larger database consisting of over 2000 professors at 51 top US universities. Consistent …
What’s it like being a professor at a teaching institution? Professors at teaching institutions do a lot less research than professors at …
Scientist Entrepreneurs In general, research is only capable of actually making people’s lives better if it is incorporated into a commercial product …
What is a Science Policy Advisor? Politicians at the federal, state, and local levels need to make scientifically informed decisions, but they …
I previously estimated faculty job candidate statistics by estimating what the CVs of professors looked like when they got their jobs. I …
UC San Diego’s Cognitive Science Department is one of the top departments in the United States. In 2013, they interviewed four faculty …
I love science, and I’ve long planned to stay in academia after finishing my PhD. Last summer I decided to estimate how …