Re: [Coin] Academic contributions in COIN

Some comments below.

Marie-José Montpetit, Ph.D.
Research Affiliate, MIT Media Laboratory
mariejose@mjmontpetit.com
mariejo@mit.edu

On October 8, 2019 at 2:01:33 PM, Noa Zilberman (noa.zilberman@cl.cam.ac.uk)
wrote:

Hi,

I would suggest that we need to find ways to incentivize academics to
engage with COIN.

Some ideas that I can think of are:
1. Clearly list challenges on the wiki. These may be accompanied by drafts,
but not necessarily, and can be something that was discussed on the mailing
list,
   a presentation from a meeting etc. Ideally those will be accompanied by
one or two lines to describe the challenge (+pointers). This helps not only
to identify gaps, but also if there's a graduate student looking for a
project in in-network computing, there may be a "go to page" hosted by
COINRG with potential research challenges, and potential collaborators.

This is at good idea for the Github - if we phase out the wiki - as it is
easier to collaborate. I think challenges could be discussed on the mailing
list then uploaded and I would love for people involved (the collaborators)
to edit the challenge as things progress - or at least send us the updates
As for the “go to page” it’s for me part of the description like you say
“the posters”..

2. Invite postdocs and students to talk at the meetings. They are usually
the first authors of papers so they know the tech side well, are more
likely to have the time to travel, and are eager to discuss their research.

In my mind when we invite someone any member of the team can come :) Of
course there are the issues of travel, registration etc. Sadly we do not
have a budget.

3. Make data available (this was briefly mentioned in the meeting). These
may be use cases, datasets, traces etc.  Research is better if it is driven
by real world data (and more likely to get published).

Yes! Data from real world sets and librairies I would say. Or at least
real-world use cases.

4. List collaboration opportunities, internships etc that fall within
COINRG domain.

Of course!

mjm

Kind Regards,
Noa

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 4:55 PM Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com>
wrote:

> Today at the Interim Noa Zilberman raised the issue on how to help
> academics contribute to COIN (thanks Noa!).
>
> Obviously drafts are not the right vehicle for most academics and Colin
> Perkins added that we could have other mechanisms.
>
> Some inputs:
> - academic presentations at the meeting with appropriate papers stored in
> the Github and datatracker (we already have done some of this)
> - if a topic could lead to a RFC support academic collaborators in writing
> a draft
> - keeping a list of related conferences and try to have mini-PRG meetings
> there
>
> But I am sure there is much more. So what are the list’s ideas?
>
> The minutes of the meeting will be issued and I have a recording I will
> upload to the GitHub.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> mjm
>
> Marie-José Montpetit, Ph.D.
> Research Affiliate, MIT Media Laboratory
> mariejose@mjmontpetit.com
> mariejo@mit.edu
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