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Rui Huang — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:56:45 -0400

Try this link: http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/05/the_jurys_way_out.html

see the first WIKI paper by Imechanica: by Suo, Ciavarella,Hills

Mike Ciavarella — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:03:50 -0400

see the first WIKI paper by Imechanica: by Suo, Ciavarella,Hills

More data confirming the old system of "peer review" is empiric

Mike Ciavarella — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:52:41 -0400

Check my updates on

My letter of resignation from the board of International Journal of Solids and Structures
http://imechanica.org/node/3210

I ADD SOME CURIOUS STATISTICS ABOUT IJSS AND IntJFAT BOARDS, SUGGESTING
THE EDITORS SURPRISINGLY NOT EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RANKING, AND THE
REAL SUPERSTARS ARE BELYTSCHO AND SUO FOR IJSS, AND RITCHIE AND
MURAKAMI FOR IntJFat. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "PEERS" THEN WITH SUCH A
DILUTED AND DIVERSE RANGE OF PEOPLE IN THE BOARD?

michele ciavarella

www.micheleciavarella.it

WIKINOMICS --- Why traditional papers need to be changed

Mike Ciavarella — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:47:40 -0400

see

http://imechanica.org/node/3240#comment-7634

michele ciavarella
www.micheleciavarella.it

Re. Biswajit

Ajit R. Jadhav — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:38:07 -0500

Hi Biswajit,

It was interesting to get to know that personal bit about yourself.... I thought it was only me---someone who had chosen to have it delievered on both sides of the chin...

Ajit

Ah ... glad to know your

Amit.Ranade — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:58:49 -0500

Ah ... glad to know your experience was different from mine.

For what it's worth, I worked for someone on the tenure track (and I didn't know what TT was for the first 2 years that I worked on it). No wonder that I didn't get as much freedom as I wanted.

Re: Graduate Student or Graduate Employee?

Biswajit Banerjee — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:59:38 -0500

My experience is somewhat different. I worked for a number of years in industry before doing my PhD. In industry the focus is more on products that can be shipped within a short period of time (whether it is services or manufacturing). You have to show a return on investment in the very short term to short term (i.e., from one quarter to a year at the most).

In academia, even though you may have to deliver results in the short term, the focus is much longer term and failure to achieve goals in the short term does not always lead to the project being axed. Also, my experience has been that a student is much more independent of their advisor (and a postdoc is almost completely independent) than a worker in industry is of their immediate manager.

Having said that I do agree that graduate students (particularly PhD students) should be paid an amount commensurate with what they would get in industry. Otherwise the opportunity cost is too high to break even in the event that they don't get a position in academia.

-- Biswajit

Caveat: I'm not sure what the situation is if you work on industrial R&D.

Great post.

Amit.Ranade — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:05:32 -0400

Englightening post.

Steve Jobs speech at Stanford commencement 2005

Zhigang Suo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:53:03 -0400

Thank you, Joseph, for this post. I followed it up and found a video of Jobs speech at Stanford commencement 2005. It was indeed inspiring.