July 7, 2008 - July 11, 2008

PhD Summer School 2008

Location: Cambridge, UK

Discussions Themes

This type of discussions was requested by the students who attended the 2006 Summer School and the students who attended the 2007 Summer School enjoyed them very much. The goal was to make the students think and discuss about a topic or issue of importance and get to know each other.

Each group was asked to share briefly to the other groups the outcome of their discussion.

Ethics in scientific research

  • Discussion leader: Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research)

Scientific method in computing research

  • Discussion leader: Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)

Computer science education

  • Discussion leader: Kevin Bond (Aylesbury Grammar School, Cambridge)

Impact of research

  • Discussion leader: Wolfgang Emmerich (University College London)

Being a post-doc – Academia vs. industry

  • Discussion leader: Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research)