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Your list seems pretty complete, but I wonder which items are the most important. It might be counterintuitive. For instance, I assume that grant writing is su
by projectramo 8y ago
Your list seems pretty complete, but I wonder which items are the most important. It might be counterintuitive.
For instance, I assume that grant writing is such a hassle, the average person would accept just to get out of writing grants. But the guys and gals that they picked up are at the top of their field. Would they also have the same constraints? Seems like they would have higher hit rates, less teaching and so forth.
I think the ability to launch the careers of their grad students, get them hired etc might be at the top, but I am just guessing.
- whymauri 8y agoI'm not in CS research, but even 'top labs' can struggle to get government funding from the NIH/NSF. I worked at a lab that consistently publishes in Nature/Science, a few times front cover, and gets very good PR. It's a running joke that we've never gotten NIH funding despite translating our research to people several times. Majority of our funding comes from 3rd party private companies and DARPA, which people might find objectionable despite being a govt. agency. There is no free lunch in raising money for research.