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You and Your Research

M. Zubair Shafiq

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Disclaimer!

This talk only consists of personal opinions and experiences.

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You and Your Research

Talk at Bell labs, 1986

Richard Hamming

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Who was Richard Hamming?

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• Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery, 1968• Fellow of the IEEE, 1968• IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, 1979• Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1980• Harold Pender Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1981• Fellow of the ACM, 1994• Eduard Rhein Award, 1996• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 1988

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1. For students

2. For administration/faculty

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For Students

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Think BIG!

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Act Small!

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Look for the Difference!

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Luck Favors the Prepared Mind!

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Understand Your Weakness

and Your Strengths

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Hard work can make up for a lack of intelligence!

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Work Hard When You Are Young!

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Genius is 99% perspiration and inspiration1%

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Work with an Open Door!

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Don't Be Ego Assertion!

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The Best of Your Working Conditions!

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Market your work!

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Don't Get Famous When You Are NOT Ready!

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For Administration/Faculty

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What if Einstein comes to

EME????

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Be Friendly!

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Collaborate with the world!

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The computer age is barely half a century old.

Computers have yet to find their Galileo, Newton, Einstein, or Kepler.

It could be YOU!

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Thanks!