What kind of research has a high impact?
0. Discovery-type: Small-world/scale-free networks, Kleiberg’s Authoritative sources, self-similarity of internet traffic, emergent property of social, economic and biological systems.
If Old One creates this world by a simple rule, discovery of this rule is the holy grail of all scientists. The rule is there – just go and [...]
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Characteristics of high-impact research in Computer Science and Engineering
Posted in tips on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What I have learned from “poor-quality” PDF files?
Posted in tips on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a long time (at least a year), I was bothered by a problem with some pdf files – they appear really lousy on my computer screen. Unless I zoom to >150% under Acroread, texts in those PDF files are just terrible – primarily due to aliasing. So I even had developed a habit of [...]