How to Have Impact: Five Easy Pieces

Because my research group has had a pretty good record of getting the fruits of our research adopted “in the real world”, I often get asked how to get work adopted. In this talk, I will talk about five “easy” pieces of actionable advice that seem to have worked: (1) scratch an itch, (2) build real systems, (3) embed yourself, (4) give great talks, and (5) go to the mountain.

This talk consists of numerous animations, making a slide count somewhat irrelevant.

The talk is written to be delivered in English but the speaker can also present in Spanish.

Note: This talk was recently given virtually as part of the Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop @ PLDI 2020: https://youtu.be/ZLaps-g97CA?t=10975. It is based on a blog post that appeared on the ACM SIGARCH and SIGPLAN blogs: https://www.sigarch.org/how-to-have-real-world-impact-five-easy-pieces/

https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/10/29/how-to-have-real-world-impact-five-easy-pieces/