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 research universities. In the United States, these professors work at community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and four year colleges that typically lack Ph.D. programs. To pursue this …
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 …