Follow the footprints

    Lives of great men all remind us
        We can make our lives sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
        Footprints on the sands of time ;

    Footprints, that perhaps another,
        Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
    A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
        Seeing, shall take heart again.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), A PSALM OF LIFE

最近逛的researcher的主页比较多。都是不到30岁的Elites:

http://www-mount.ece.umn.edu/~jjyi/

http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blee/index.html

看看这些人发的publication，都是10篇20篇的顶级会议。也就是3~4年里面发的。

忘了哪个老师说的发paper就像华山论剑，要比剑就去最好的会议比。这是一个from good to great的过程。

大师Patterson说：
* Goal is to have impact:
Change way people do Computer Science & Engineering
� Many 3 - 5 year projects gives more chances for impact
* Feedback is key: seek out & value critics
* Do Real Stuff : make sure you are solving some problem
that someone cares about
* Taste is critical in selecting research problems, solutions,
experiments, & communicating results; acquired by
feedback and completing projects
* Faculty real legacy is people, not paper:
create environments that develop professionals of whom
you are proud
* Students are the coin of the academic realm
这可能是下一个境界了。无剑胜有剑。