A very motivating talk

今天在 Cisco 聽了一場發常好的 talk，主講人是 Dr. Douglas Comer，他是 Purdue 的教授，今年似乎是 on leave 並且在 Cisco research 工作。

這個演講的主題是 Advice on Your Research Career，Dr. Comer 以前輩的身分，建議剛開始 research career 的 young Phd，應該要如何展開自己的 career。

整個 talk 非常的 motivating，在這分享我特別有感觸的幾點：

1. Ask your self how you want your research career to turn out; set up a conscious goal accordingly.

2. Make TIME for research. You are in charge of your career.

3. You are too young to tell what you can ever achieve. Don't put a limit to yourself.

4. Assessing research by its IMPACT.

5. Find and do what only you can do.

有時候命運是很奇妙的東西。十年前我因為 Douglas Comer 寫的 Internetworking with TCP/IP 一書，一頭跳進電腦網路的領域。十年後，在我拿到 Phd，打算開始 research career 的時候，又和 Dr. Comer 相會。聽大師一席話，受益良多，特別為文記之。