Computer Systems Research: The Joys, the Perils, and How to Count Beans Well

摘要

This post is broadly meant for computer systems researchers, and that is a big tent, includingmembers of the architecture, software systems, security/dependability, programminglanguages, software engineering, and several other communities. This post is meant tohighlight my subjective take on the joys and the road bumps on the way to doing innovativework in computer systems. One kind of road bump arises from the bibliometric indices thatare not always kind to our work. I speculate on some ways of skirting bumps of this kind. Thereflection was brought on most immedia