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Undergrad here, what's the best way to keep up with new papers in a field (e.g. distributed computing or machine learning)? What sources/methods are good for ma
by owlish 12y ago
Undergrad here, what's the best way to keep up with new papers in a field (e.g. distributed computing or machine learning)? What sources/methods are good for making the most of your reading time?
- petercooper 12y agoFor the areas they cover, being a member of the relevant IEEE group can be useful (I guess ACM probably does something similar but I'm not a member). For one of the groups I'm in, I receive a pamphlet every few months that summarizes a ton of papers in the field and a CD with the full content on. (It's all online as well, but I know I'd never remember to actively check there.) You may also find the relevant section of http://arxiv.org/ http://arxiv.org/ useful as well. For example, http://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/recent http://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/recent
- sampo 12y agoIn other sciences, you'd follow some leading journals. In computer science, you follow some of the leading conferences (and hope that the conference publishes the proceedings in some place that your university has access).
- theschreon 12y agoOnce you have identified the most significant individuals on a field, you can use google scholar alerts to get notified when they publish something new. (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts http://scholar.google.com/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts). In the case of machine learning that would be Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng (this list is not exhaustive of course).
- tlarkworthy 12y agoget suggestions from more informed people (e.g reading groups, professors, news aggregators :p ). work smart, not hard.