Writing, Speaking, and Networking William Cook Calvin Lin Kathryn S McKinley The University of Texas at Austin

About Kathryn McKinley Love mathComputer Science Love boysUG Research Summer Marry Scotty 1985 Love researchCompilers, Architecture & their interactions Asst Prof UMass Assc Prof UMass Assc Prof UT Prof UT 2005-present Love boysCooper 1995 Dylan 1998 Wyatt 2001 Love compilersTRIPS Compiler

Networking Making and using professional connections wisely Seeking out & developing relationships with people in the service of professional goals It take a village, and you get to create your own

Creating your own village All villages need elders All villages need regular Joes All villages need diversity Learn different strokes from different folks All villages need uniformity Similar folks have similar issues John S. Davis, IBM, 2003

Networking is not … A substitute for quality work “Using” people Recognizing research is a human process A two way street Networking is …

Benefits of Networking Makes you known Makes your work known Source of new research ideas Different slant on old ideas Feedback on your research Letters of recommendation Internships opportunities Invitations to give talks Job Interviews Program committees, workshops, etc.

Speak Meet people up and down the food chain  Away at conferences  Plan to meet known researchers in your field read their webpage and papers prepare questions get an introduction or introduce yourself share your ideas  Enjoy meeting random people  Meet peers  At home  Faculty and peers  Visitors  Follow up  Have fun

CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops, Workshop reports and transcripts, From a summer internship to a permanent position by Keith Farkus, DEC WRL Finding real world problems by Dirk Grunwald, U Colorado Networking for your students by Ken Kennedy, Rice Go outside your department by Jan Cuny, U Oregon Developing business contacts by Maria Klawe, UBC Networking at NSF by Caroline Wardle, NSF Populating a start-up by Dave Ditzel, Transmeta The ONR program director by Susan Eggers, UW Resources

Acknowledgements Thanks to the following for sharing their presentations Jan Cuny, NSF and University of Oregon Susan Eggers, University of Washington John Davis, IBM Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia Tech Who did they thank? Susan Owicki, Joan Feigenbaum, Judy Goldsmith, Naomi Nishimura, David Johnson, Peter Shor, David Applegate, Richard Beigel

Now Elevator talks  1 minute ice breaker  What problem I am working on  What is interesting about it  What I am doing  If they are interested, i.e., ask you a question, go in to the 3 minute version

Me Problem  Even after extensive testing, deployed software unfortunately still has bugs Approach  Online, low cost, detection and tolerance of bugs  Novel ideas  piggyback on the garbage collector to analyze the heap behavior  dynamic slicing to detect null pointer sources  probabilistic calling context to find anomalous calling sequences

You Pair up with someone at your table Introduce yourself (networking 101 ;-) Practice your elevator talk  Problem & your approach  Note: area of interest is not enough Volunteers show us the results Now you have your ice breaker!