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. Faculty are welcome too.
The next session...
ERIK RIEDEL
ABSTRACT:
BIO:
Before joining HP Labs, he received a doctorate in Computer
Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University working with
David Nagle and Garth Gibson in the Parallel Data Lab (PDL)
and Christos Faloutsos in the Center for Automated Learning
and Discovery (CALD). His thesis work was on Active Disks
as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD).
Over the years he has spent time looking at I/O in a number
of areas, including parallel apps, data mining, database,
file systems, and scientific data processing.
Before he became a storage guy, Erik worked on an National
Science Foundation Grand Challenge project in Environmental
Modeling and earned a Master's degree in Software
Engineering, also at Carnegie Mellon.
Erik was born in Wuerzburg, Germany and - even after 20
years in the United States - is still occasionally puzzled
by strange American customs like peanut butter.
Past Lectures:
Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto
In collaboration with Howard Gobioff, Google, Inc.Life in Industry - Labs and Startups - Heaven or Hell?
Friday
9 November 2001
Wean 5409
1:00 pm
There is life after grad school! Two alumni offer advice
from the world beyond the ivory tower. What useful things
did we learn in grad school? What wasn't so useful? What did
we not learn that we wish we had? What to look for in a job
and a company. How to succeed once you get there. This talk
will look at those questions from two different viewpoints -
for a job in an industrial research lab, and at an Internet
startup. Information for making a decision if you're close,
and things to think about if you're not.
Erik Riedel is a Researcher in the storage program at
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. His
main interests are in the areas of networked storage,
security, and new high-level interfaces to storage systems
(the current ones are quite outdated).
Future Lectures:
Raul Valdes-Perez, Founder, Vivisimo and Senior Research Scientist, SCS
Kevin Dowling
Peter Shane