This is the time of the year when about 4 million high-schoolers, and their frazzled parents, will be considering the important, arguably life-changing, decision about which college to enroll in. The well-prepared will have a wealth of desirable choices to choose from, while many others will be staring at a small set of unenviable choices. […]
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AI Security Work Is Best Done In Academia or Industry? (2/2)
We left off the last part with arguments for why industry has become the place for major leaps in AI, though with several notable exceptions, both historical and ongoing. In this part, we will consider the counter points that make it attractive for doing AI security work in academic lanes and bylanes. Doubtless, a best-of-both-worlds […]
AI Security Work Is Best Done In Academia or Industry? (1/2)
A question that has been asked in our circles for a few years is what is the best place to do AI research, academia or industry. An insightful Science article from 2023 by Neil Thompson and colleagues at MIT shed light on part of this question in their article “The growing influence of industry in […]
How does Life Change Post Academic Tenure?
Tenure is this seemingly magical elevation in academia that grants you the power, nay, the opportunity to do adventurous things, secure in the knowledge that you have a permanent job. Well, if you are thinking that nothing is permanent except for death and taxes, you are right; tenure is permanent with several corner cases. With […]
Short Take: Big Data and IoT in Practice
Citation Beyond the tremendous level of activity around big data (data science, machine learning, data analytics, … take your pick of the term) in research circles, I wanted to peek into some of the use cases for its adoption in the industries that deal with physical things, as opposed to digital objects. And draw some […]
Distant Whispers from an Academic Engineer's World 