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Industry and Academia Ask Different Things of Research
The difference between research in industry and academia may lie less in what researchers study than in what their answers are expected to do, survive, and become.
When the Field Moves
What happens to researchers when the problems, tools, and skills that shaped their field begin to change?
What My Best Answer Could Not See
What Participatory Design taught me about uncertainty, care, and what even a well-reasoned answer can miss.
When Doing the Task Is Not Enough — Part 2
What graphics, perceptual evaluation, and human-robot interaction suggest about the next demands on capable robots, and where new research may begin.
What Will Change First in Robotics? — Part 1
What AI's uneven progress in systems, theory, and learning algorithms suggests about the next few years of robotics, and the work of researching it.
You Do Not Need to Know the Future to Have One
What I would tell someone choosing a life when no one can tell them what the world will become.
Same Computer Science, Different Senses of Reality
Computer-science subfields often disagree not because one is more rigorous, but because they protect different kinds of rigor: possibility, constraint, and principle.