After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• explain the scientific publishing process from different perspectives.
•  write (introductions) in an engaging way for a scientifically-minded audience.
•  explain different stage in and opportunities for a scientific career.
•  reflect about their career in the long run.

Content

This course covers a selection of the following topics:

• Methodological issues of Computer Science Research
• Models of Research Organization
• The structure of the CS Scientific Community
• Communicating with peer scientists
• Codes of conduct and ethics
• Web resources for Computer Scientists
• Models of Industrial Co-operations
• Patents and patent intellectual property
• The scientific publishing process
• How to plan research
• How to write a scientific paper
• Presentation of results in talks and at conferences
• Quality criteria and evaluation models in Science
• How to choose a conference and a journal
• How you will be evaluated in the future
• Models of funding - Organization, structure, and management of scientific projects
• Scientific visits and co-operations
• Where to apply for a postdoctoral position
• Career models for Computer Scientists
• and much more...

This course consists of 4 parts:

•  Lectures: which introduce students into the topics;
•  small homework exercises encouraging students to reflect about their (scientific) career (in the long run);
•  student presentations;
•  a conference style peer reviewing process: where student submit a introduction, and participate in a peer-reviewing of these introduction.

This is a fundamental course of the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School. This course is related to methodologies.

It is identical with course no. 184.778. For all information about course dates and registration modalities please refer to course no. 184.778.

ECTS Breakdown

  15 h presence in the seminar units
  40 h preparation of 2 presentations
  15 h Writing an introduction and participation in the EasyChair discussions
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 75 h = 3 Ects

The assessment is based on:

•  two presentation on topics of the course;
•  submission of a introduction to a scientific article;
•  participation in the Peer-Reviewing process for the submitted introductions;
•  participation in the discussions in class.

Registration details can be found on the course website!

This course is intended for doctoral students.