Applied research gets no respect

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Applied research gets no respect
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What people care about is what changes their
lives
Thanks to Kanna Rajan for the figures.
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Trajectory Robotics

• A technical committee is elected and steers
  toward the goal via rule changes, new leagues,
  and competitions
• Simple success criteria
• Scientific progress is encouraged by awards for
  Symposium papers
• Competition motivates students
• Prestige and encouragment for researchers to
  participate

RoboCup Goal By the year 2050 develop a team of
fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win
against the human world soccer champion team
Thanks to Paul Cohen for the original of this
slide.
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Sometimes you arent told what you want to hear

• Reviewers
• Dont expect experimental control
• Think differently about review criteria
• Consider relevance to long term goals of field
  and what is learned about applicability of
  current techniques

• Authors
• Explain what worked well, what needed to be
  changed/enhanced, what you learned and your
  guess(?) of why
• Make available data or code (when possible) or at
  least provide detailed descriptions on a website

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How blocks should be used