期刊名称：Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
出版年度：2016
卷号：39
期号：3
页码：2
出版社：IEEE Computer Society
摘要：In March I received the following news by e-mail: “...on behalf of the IEEE TCDE I am delighted to inform youthat the TCDE Award Committee has awarded you the IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering, andEducation) and Impact Award for this year ‘for leadership and research excellence in building impactful datamanagement systems, engineering tools, products, and practices’.” I was very surprised, and I was extremelyhonored to be chosen! Along with that news came an opportunity to write a one-pager about “anything” for theDE Bulletin, and I’ve decided to use my DE space to offer some in-my-opinion (IMO) “stylistic suggestions”for researchers in our community – thoughts aimed at all of us, but especially at the younger set.1. Results, not papers, are the objective! All too often, conversations with our fellow academics (bothfaculty and students alike) or research lab staffers include phrases like “I’m working on a paper about ...” or “Iwant to write a paper for SIGXXX...”. The goal of our work should be to “do cool stuff” – to build cool systemsor subsystems, or to come up with cool and useful algorithms or data structures or insights – not to write papers.Once we have something to report, it’s paper time – but the paper should never be the end goal (IMO).
