Reflections on Being a Successful Academic Researcher

Being a researcher, being an editor, being an author.

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...

Reflections on an academic career

There are many undefined aspects to an academic medical career. This article attempts to provide some guidance about things to consider.

Challenges and Strategies in Collaborative Working with Service User Researchers: Reflections from the Academic Researcher

In this article, the authors consider the lessons to be drawn from a collaborative twoyear research project involving academic researchers working alongside three service user research organisations. The joint working on the project involved designing a research tool and conducting interviews with users of services that were provided by health and social services partnerships. Questions arising...

MINDFULNESS IN PRACTICE Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Reflections on being an AI System Architect

Traditionally, AI researchers have been attracted by the idea of creating machines that are intelligent, or understanding of the nature of human intelligence. My path to becoming an AI researcher was nontraditional, and in a way, this path has shaped my view on what the important issues are in AI. My computer science Ph.D. dissertation was not in AI or a related field, but in parallel computer ...