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Speech on the beach. Nice!
See it here:
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~patt/Videos/
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A lot to learn from Patt. To list a few:
"XXX is critical, and he has humor. I'm critical, but I don't have much humor."
 Humor is important as it makes the criticism more tolerable. Being critical is important to find problems, but this is only the first step. Then you should solve the problem by changing what other people think. Make other people be glad to accept your criticism to them need skills, or rather, it is art. Humor helps a lot.
I also find that metaphor is important in expressing your idears. A good metaphor makes the idea more understandable.

"Too many professors , ..., much of their research is garbage. Is it a good idea that they should do research?"
"Simplescalar has been ...bug... for year. We don't use simplescalar.
We build simulators from scratch, we have a clue of what's going on.
People that do research using simplescalar don't know what's going on. ... a bug in the simulator, they get their results, WOW! It's the bug that makes their result looks good.
What I like to argue is that would a professor doing a lousy research,
The problem that doing a lousy research is that you produce crap, and you're wasting time. time that you could do things other than research."
Write simulator of your own. That's what Patt means.

"He would like to produce a paper with this nonsense. Please do us a favour, when it (the paper) is done, put it in the waste basket, don't make us read it, or evaluate it. The problem is if you're doing a bad research, you ... from doing two other things: scholarship and industry..."

"IOP is not dead. ... but it is 'easier' to say IOP is dead, why? because there's more transistors on the chip, ... so we do multiple core. ... the problem solved. So I got billions of transistors."

"enview your student with the same passion. let me explain to you: this thing (research) is passionable, How did you not want to do that?"