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Mentoring Advice on “Conferences Versus Journals” for CSE Faculty

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(2012)

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Years ago, a young CS faculty member at a university in Tennessee described to me how his department chair had told him that the Assistant Professors did not need to go to conferences, but instead should stay in their offices and work on journal papers. To me, this was an example of truly awful mentoring advice. Several times in recent years, in talking with new PhD graduates who have applied to our department, they have explained to me how their advisor told them that they should publish only in conferences and not bother with journals. To me, this is just the other extreme of truly awful mentoring advice. The best mentoring advice to give to young (all?) CSE faculty is that they should strive to do the highest-quality research that they can, and to publish it in the top venues – both conferences and journals – for their area.

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