On 12/12/2010 07:38 PM, Konrads Smelkovs wrote:
I am not sure I agree with that. One of the saddest moments
in my academic life was realising that the choice of PhD is
dictated for the majority of non-brilliant students (of which,
sadly, I was part) not by the advancement of science but by
the fastest route to achieve a thesis which will pass muster.
You therefore look for problems which are obscure, hidden
somewhere and with next to no chance of having any importance
except to close a border case. The impression I have is: lots
of border cases in academia when it comes to security.
This sounds very sad. If PhD's in security are valued so low, then
imagine the amount of waste put into producing masters' thesises and
even bachelors'. If this list thinks it knows enough about real world
problems that need researching, then how about producing a list of
Dailydave approved research topics in form of thesis titles and maybe
few pointers in the right direction?
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I'll throw in 2 cents worth. I'm in full time employment and am a part
time student, working (painfully slowly) towards a PhD (digital
forensics - choice not predicated on by anything but personal desire).
I don't see anything wrong at all with the focus on border cases in
academia. I work in the availability corner of the infosec CIA triad -
in an admittedly highly specialized role - but I think it's worth saying
that 100% of my day to day work consists of those "corner cases" or
"border cases" or "cascade failures", that Taleb would probably call
"black swans" and which I wish someone had foreseen and written a paper on.
Mike G
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