School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
The SCS Emigration Seminars are a series of lectures and discussion
sessions that focus on "grooming" you so you'll be ready to conquer the
real world when you finish your Ph.D. The interwoven threads are Jobs,
Money, Career Options, Intellectual Property, The Real World, Ethics,
and Communication Skills. Unlike the Immigration course, which is held
during the first three weeks of the school year, the Emigration course
is spread over the entire academic year. While the topics of interest
are chosen with the more senior students in mind, students in the
entire School of Computer Science are encouraged and welcome to attend.
Friday, 2 December 2005
ABSTRACT:
Tuesday, 6 December 2005
ABSTRACT:
SPEAKER BIO:
Before joining Digital, Roy was a Principal Scientist at Xerox's Palo
Alto Research Center. He was project co-leader and a principal developer
of Cedar, an experimental programming environment for high-performance
workstations. Cedar set the standard (c. 1982) for integrated
programming environments for algol-tradition languages, incorporating
significant advances in language technology, file systems, network
communication (rpc), and user interfaces. Roy also was a
co-developer of Grapevine, a landmark electronic mail system.
Roy received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon
University and his B.S. in Mathematics from Yale University. He
is a member of the ACM, and a former chair of ACM SIGOPS. He
is author or co-author of approximately 20 technical papers,
books, and patents.
Past Lectures:
The next session...
The ever-popular and highly-demanded reprise talk...TIPS ON THE JOB INTERVIEW PROCESS
with
Jeannette M. Wing
Head, Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Wean Hall 5409 -- 3:00 PM
Refreshments will be served
Are you an SCS Ph.D. graduate student about to interview for a job in academia or industry? I'd like to share with our soon-to-be or newly-minted Ph.D.s some general tips on the interview process, including pre-interview preparation, the visit itself and job talk, and post-interview follow-up. I will leave ample time for discussion and questions.
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And another special program coming up December 6....
A JOB IN INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH?
with
Roy Levin
Director
Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 -- 12:00 PM
Refreshments will be served
When I graduated from CMU, no one gave me much guidance in
interviewing for a job, and I didn't have a good perspective
about the differences between academic and industrial positions.
Today, graduates seem to get better advice but they could
still be better prepared when they go out to
interview at research labs. In this informal talk,
I'll compare academic and industrial research in computer
science, discuss what research labs tend to look for when
interviewing candidates, and explain how a candidate can
make the most of the process.
Roy Levin joined Microsoft in August, 2001, to found the
Silicon Valley Research lab.
From 1996 until he joined Microsoft, Roy was Director of the
Compaq's Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California.
Previously, he was a senior researcher in the Center since
its founding in 1984 by Digital Equipment Corporation.
During those years, he was a primary contributor and project
leader for the Topaz programming environment and its
micro-kernel operating system, the first to provide
high-performance, light-weight process scheduling and
inter-process communication on a multiprocessor workstation.
He also was project leader and a primary contributor for Vesta,
a software configuration management system embodying novel
technology and tools for source control, version management,
and building of large software systems.
Upcoming Lectures:
Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University
Ted Wong, IBM Almaden Research
Jeannette Wing, Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon Universitys
Scott Dietzen, BEA Systems (includes slides)
Kevin Dowling, Color Kinetics
Howard Gobioff and Erik Riedel, Google Inc and Seagate Technology
Roy Levin, Microsoft Research
Peter Shane, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon
Erik Riedel, HP Laboratories (includes slides)
Astro Teller, BodyMedia, Inc.
Jeannette Wing, School of Computer Science (includes slides)