SCS Emigration Course
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890

The SCS Emigration Seminars are a series of lectures and discussion sessions that focus on "grooming" you so you'll be ready to conquer the real world when you finish your Ph.D. The interwoven threads are Jobs, Money, Career Options, Intellectual Property, The Real World, Ethics, and Communication Skills. Unlike the Immigration course, which is held during the first three weeks of the school year, the Emigration course is spread over the entire academic year. While the topics of interest are chosen with the more senior students in mind, students in the entire School of Computer Science are encouraged and welcome to attend. Faculty are welcome too.

The next session...

ERIK RIEDEL
Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto
In collaboration with Howard Gobioff, Google, Inc.

Life in Industry - Labs and Startups - Heaven or Hell?

Friday
9 November 2001

Wean 5409
1:00 pm

Slides from presentation

ABSTRACT:
There is life after grad school! Two alumni offer advice from the world beyond the ivory tower. What useful things did we learn in grad school? What wasn't so useful? What did we not learn that we wish we had? What to look for in a job and a company. How to succeed once you get there. This talk will look at those questions from two different viewpoints - for a job in an industrial research lab, and at an Internet startup. Information for making a decision if you're close, and things to think about if you're not.

BIO:
Erik Riedel is a Researcher in the storage program at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. His main interests are in the areas of networked storage, security, and new high-level interfaces to storage systems (the current ones are quite outdated).

Before joining HP Labs, he received a doctorate in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University working with David Nagle and Garth Gibson in the Parallel Data Lab (PDL) and Christos Faloutsos in the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (CALD). His thesis work was on Active Disks as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD). Over the years he has spent time looking at I/O in a number of areas, including parallel apps, data mining, database, file systems, and scientific data processing.

Before he became a storage guy, Erik worked on an National Science Foundation Grand Challenge project in Environmental Modeling and earned a Master's degree in Software Engineering, also at Carnegie Mellon.

Erik was born in Wuerzburg, Germany and - even after 20 years in the United States - is still occasionally puzzled by strange American customs like peanut butter.



Future Lectures:
Raul Valdes-Perez, Founder, Vivisimo and Senior Research Scientist, SCS

Past Lectures:
Kevin Dowling
Peter Shane


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