Research in Computing Discipline

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Research in Computing Discipline

• Prabhas Chongstitvatana

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Outline

• What is research
• Scientific method
• Why research
• How to research
• Current topics in computing
• Characteristic of graduates
• Step-by-step of doing research
• Examples of research work
• My own observation

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What is research?

• vi-jai -- collect, search,
• karn-kon-kwa-ha-kor-moon
• yang-tee-toan tam-luk-vi-cha
• research -- scholarly or scientific
• investigation or inquiry
• scholar --
• 1 a learned person
• 2 one who attends school or studies with a
  teacher

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What is research

• scientific -- employing the methodology of
  science
• scientific method -- The totalities of
  principles and processes regarded as
  characteristic of or necessary for scientific
  investigation, including rules for concept
  formation, conduct of observations and
  experiments, and validation of hypotheses by
  observations or experiments.

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Scientific method

• 1 Hypothesis
• 2 Design of experiment
• 3 Experiment and collect data
• 4 Analysis of data
• 5 Interpretation of results

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Why research? (left for exercise)
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How to do research?

• Curiosity
• Asking questions
• Refine questions
• Formulate method to get the answer
• literature review
• background theory
• Design (for synthesis problems)
• Experiment (for analysis problems)
• Analysis Validation
• Interpretation

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Current topics in Computing (from IEEE Computer
Science Discipline)

• The World Wide Web and its applications
• Networking technologies, particularly those based
  on TCP/IP
• Graphics and multimedia
• Embedded systems
• Relational databases
• Interoperability

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Current topics in Computing

• Object-oriented programming
• The use of sophisticated application programmer
  interfaces (APIs)
• Human-computer interaction
• Software safety
• Security and cryptography

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Characteristic of graduates

• Knowledge
• Modeling
• Requirements
• Critical evaluation and testing
• Methods and tools
• Professional responsibility

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Skills of graduates

• Design and implementation
• Evaluation
• Information management
• Human-computer interaction
• Risk assessment
• Tools
• Operation

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Skills of graduates

• Communication
• Self management

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Step-by-step of doing research

• What is your interest?
• Find the right teacher
• Work with your advisor
• Asking the right research question
• doable in a reasonable time
• do you want to publish?
• Do small project (or initial Design)
• Experiment with your project/design
• Work with your advisor
• Write paper/thesis

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Examples of the research work

• Web
• A Popularity-Based Prediction Model for Web
  Prefetching
• Computer systems
• Simulating a 2M commercial server on a 2K PC
• Graphics
• Made-to-measure technologies for an online
  clothing store

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Examples of the research work

• Software engineering
• Computer-mediated group support, anonymity, and
  the software inspection process an empirical
  investigation
• Computer architecture
• Power evaluation of a handheld computer
• Robotics
• Sharing control

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Examples of the research work

• Evolutionary computation
• Globally convergent algorithms for dc operating
  point analysis of nonlinear circuits
• VLSI
• Instruction-based system-level power evaluation
  of system-on-a-chip peripheral cores
• Mobile computing
• A comprehensive resource management framework
  for next generation wireless networks

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Examples of the research work

• Intelligent systems
• Intelligent indexing of crime scene photographs
• Programming languages
• A Programming System for Children that is
  Designed for Usability

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My own observation

• research is very much social activities
• but a lot of time you need quite time and place
  to think hard.
• motivation is very important
• find the topic that suite your interest and
  work with your advisor to make it doable.
• publication always takes more time than you
  expect.
• start writing a thesis is difficult but finishing
  one is easy.

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Exercise

• Working at home is more comfortable. Why come to
  school?
• Many things can be self-taught why need a
  teacher?
• How much time is needed to do research?
• What you will get out of doing a research?

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End

• Good luck and start talking to faculties!