Just a short blog to specifically address the unanswered questions this assignment was/is supposed to answer.
A complete description of Nick Feamster's research can come directly from his website, more specifically on his research statement.
As for patterns in literature use, where systematically looking for information, and where serendipitously looking? I think these all sort of blend together. Nick's CV shows a great deal of activity in various conferences, symposiums, and workshops. The proceedings of these conferences are reflected in his citations. There are some organizations that he is more involved with (ACM and SIGCOMM for instance) and awareness of what is going on in these areas will be heightened. But because computer science is such a large field with one area impacting another it is important to be somewhat aware of what is going on in the various sub-disciplines.
Social networking participation? Beyond the physical or live networking experience at all those conferences/symposiums/workshops/etc. Nick both twitters and shares his bookmarks (through delicious).
Is his citing information open access?
Many of the sources are trying to allow access to all, or at least to their members.
2 years ago
Today must be the day for me to discover new networks and resources- first Clusty.com and now Twitters! Thanks for bringing it up. Are you able to access anything he has posted on Twitters? I'm not sure how it all works.
ReplyDeleteHahaha as an avid facebook user, it just tickles me that you found him on twitter. A definite sign of the technological age, but it is a very valid (though I had overlooked it) networking source for our scientists. These can give us information that we probably would never find anywhere else. (But let this be a reminder to all of us to be careful of what we publish online. You never know, someday a grad student might use it to research YOU!)
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