Identifying the Right Mentor

The Open{mentor Methodology

The Mentor-Protégé Relationship

Mentoring is a time-honored method for learning in graduate education and professional development. Mentoring is a symbiotic relationship between a mentor protégé pair who assist each other to meet mutual career objectives. Close mentor-protégé relationships often play a critical role in the lives of successful individuals in academia and business. Effective mentoring is an intentional activity...

Identifying Left-Right Deterministic Linear Languages

Recently an algorithm to identify in the limit with polynomial time and data Left Deterministic Linear Languages (Left DLL) and, consequently Right DLL, was proposed. In this paper we show that the class of the Left-Right DLLformed by the union of both classes is also identifiable. To do that, we introduce the notion of n-negative characteristic sample, that is a sample that forces an inference...

Identifying the Right Reasons: Learning to Filter Decision Makers

Given a domain of related problem classes and a set of general decision-making procedures applicable to them, this paper describes AWL, an algorithm to filter out those procedures that prove irrelevant, selfcontradictory, or untrustworthy for a particular class. With an external model of expertise as its performance criterion, the algorithm uses a perceptron-like model to learn problem-class-sp...

Get yourself a mentor.

The article by Stamm and Buddeberg-Fischer underscores the importance of mentors in medical education. These researchers followed a cohort of Germanspeaking Swiss resident doctors during postgraduate specialty training. The researchers found a compelling relationship between having one or more mentors and both subjective and objective career success. Previous studies have also reported positive...