It is well known that the research career has several challenges due to its instability: (a) salaries are in general smaller than the ones in industry; (b) most contracts are temporary (one, two or three years, though renewable); (c) in any case, to advance his or her career, the researcher is expected to work inContinue reading “Research Career and Love”
Tag Archives: PhD Experience
Mapping study of the literature: useful boring work
When I started my PhD in CS at Unibz I did not have a defined research project. Only a couple of interests. Indeed, only after some time of studying and talking with other researchers in my group I could figure out what they really do. They use formal ontology to leverage the theory and practiceContinue reading “Mapping study of the literature: useful boring work”
How hard is career change?
Watching mixed martial arts (MMA) brings me some thoughts about other things. In UFC 258 last Saturday we saw a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) expert, Rodolfo Vieira, being finished by the underdog Anthony Hernandez, whose ground game is theoretically nowhere near Vieira’s BJJ. How could such a thing happen? The obvious answer is that MMA isContinue reading “How hard is career change?”
PhD Research in Pandemic Times
I did not post the Newsletter last week, because I have been busy writing a paper for a conference – an intended systematic review of the literature on security ontology studies for Ontobras. Beside of the Newsletter, I hope to write more often on some stuffs I have been studying recently. But here I wantContinue reading “PhD Research in Pandemic Times”
Not So Short Notes 