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Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science · lecture · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker gives the 2018 Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture at Illinois. He discusses the gap between academic research and industry problems, publishing incentives, and the influence of large industry users on research.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in many threads about academic incentives, paper counts and why academia struggles to produce working software.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “There's a lot more, I highly recommend the talk!”

    Stonebraker on why academia no longer produces working software

    mpweiher, 2024-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Experience report: It will never work in theory”

  2. “I often go back to this talk from Michael Stonebraker”

    Stonebraker on the flood of academic papers

    psychomugs, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research”

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Topics: stonebraker, databases, academia, publishing incentives, turing award

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