Thinking Clearly .

I gave a guest lecture to COMP7000, “Seminar in Research Methods”, which is basically Manchester’s “how to do a PhD” intro course. My presentation was about performance evaluation, on the one hand, and usability evalauation, on the other. I found some fun videos of experimenters gone seriously nuts (see slide 1 for links).

So, I’m in a university. We train people to be researchers. But my formal research training is in philosophy. I’m a CS auto-didact. Lots of people are. It might be fun to have a mailing list to help auto-didacts with a bit less auto. One of the hardest things about research isn’t getting training; it’s finding a community.

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