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Michael Stonebraker referred to this as "Diarrhea of papers" https://www.idug.org/browse/blogs/blogviewer?blogkey=a7b6fe8a-a792-4752-8794-6589aa32d2a4 https://
by bachmeier 4y ago
Michael Stonebraker referred to this as "Diarrhea of papers"
https://www.idug.org/browse/blogs/blogviewer?blogkey=a7b6fe8a-a792-4752-8794-6589aa32d2a4 https://www.idug.org/browse/blogs/blogviewer?blogkey=a7b6fe8...
And he more or less says the focus on quantity has made the academic field (databases) irrelevant, because individual papers don't tell you anything useful. (Disclaimer: My interpretation of his talk, and I don't work in that field.)
- mirker 4y agoMy interpretation of his claim is it’s no longer a good career move to focus on big-picture research. It’s better to attack problems with narrow scope or superficial impact. Some of those papers are useful, but they’re not the most important problems in practice.