Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE NATURE OF EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -- ECSE AND THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT -- PROVIDING A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT FOR ECSE FACULTY -- 1 What Is Experimental Computer Science and Engineering? -- ORGANIZATION AND SCOPE OF THIS REPORT -- COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -- DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF ECSE -- ECSE Is a Synthetic Discipline -- ECSE Focuses Primarily on Artifacts -- Proof of Performance -- Proof of Concept -- Proof of Existence -- Summary -- The Artifacts of ECSE Are Extraordinarily Complex -- ECSE Is Sensitive to Technological Developments -- Computing Artifacts Are Universal -- ECSE Is Not Strongly Coupled to Theoretical Computer Science -- A Succinct Definition of Experimental Computer Science and Engineering -- MORE ON ARTIFACTS -- COMPARISONS WITH OTHER FIELDS -- WHY UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PERFORM ECSE RESEARCH -- 2 An Academic Career in ECSE -- GOALS OF RESEARCH IN ECSE -- RESOURCES FOR ECSE RESEARCH -- Equipment and Software -- Staying on the Cutting Edge in Equipment -- Dedicated Computing Systems -- Specialized Systems -- Space -- Maintaining the Research Environment -- Graduate Students -- Staff Support -- Access to Collaborators and Other Experimental Systems -- Funding -- Time -- Building Complex Artifacts -- Building a Research Laboratory -- Building Industrial Relationships -- Graduating Doctoral Students -- Recovering from Wrong Turns and Dead Ends, and from Being Scooped -- Building a Reputation -- THE RELATIONSHIP OF RESEARCH SCALE TO INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS -- SUMMARY -- 3 Educational Dimensions of Academic ECSE -- KEEPING COURSES CURRENT -- EVALUATING STUDENT WORK -- STUDENT-FACULTY RATIOS -- SUPERVISING NON-PH.D. GRADUATE STUDENTS -- 4 Evaluating Research in ECSE.

PUBLICATION AND OTHER FORMS OF DISSEMINATION -- Publications -- Journals -- Conferences -- Artifacts as a Medium for Dissemination -- THEORETICIANS' AND EXPERIMENTALISTS' VIEWS ON EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH -- THE EFFECT OF EVALUATION ON PROBLEM CHOICES AND RESEARCH AREA -- A NOTE ON OTHER DISCIPLINES -- SUMMARY -- 5 A Positive Environment for Academic ECSE -- MENTORING AND ADVOCACY -- Mentoring -- Advocacy -- DESIDERATA FOR THE TENURE AND PROMOTION PROCESS -- Publications -- Artifacts -- Review Letters -- Funding History -- Other considerations in the T&P Process -- Ph.D. Students -- Consulting -- Workshops -- Teaching -- Service -- INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENT -- 6 Special Needs and Concerns of Non-Doctorate-Granting and Less Recognized Institutions -- MISSION -- SIZE -- RESOURCES -- MODELS FOR CONDUCTING ECSE RESEARCH AT NPHD SCHOOLS -- Proof-of-Performance Research -- Collaborative Research -- FACULTY EVALUATION -- 7 Findings and Recommendations -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- Recommendations for Departments -- Recommendations for University Evaluators -- POLICY ISSUES -- Federal Government -- Industry -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Surveying the ECSE Community -- Appendix B Comparing Journal and Conference Publication -- TIME TO PUBLICATION -- SELECTIVITY.