The origin of the present blog by Laura
The origin of the present blog has to be found in the past.
I worked as researcher in Politecnico di Torino, where i met Letizia. She was researcher there, too. We were used to talk, talk and talk. Especially during some travel back and forth from Torino to Tuscany.
One of the topic of our conversations was research: the reciprocal need of understanding what the other one was doing for research.
We are in two different areas, she is in computer science and i am in systems and control.
I remember that she was always asking me: but, why are you doing this? what is the reason to do this? What methodology are you using? Who suggested the problem. Are you interested in solving problems that somebody else is giving you or in solutions that can be useful in general. Ans so on.. In what you think to be an expert? Do you think that my interests in software engineering and yours, that actually i do not
get, could have some common point? do you think we can find a common topic of research?
After years of misunderstanding, the friendship was increasing but we still did not really get what the other was doing.
Years went by, i moved to Palermo, she moved to Trondheim, Norway, still trying to find a common topic of research.
Then, we started to reflect more closely on research methods.
She started working on this topic (that was indeed the real topic of our long conversations) and she started teaching some classes for phd students and experts in team.
Finally, i realized that this was the argument i also wanted to investigate, and i
also noticed that in our field none is never talking about research methods.
I realize that to investigate in what is behind what we are doing (research methods..), share experience with others and let the young people and phd students learn by teaching us or teach by learning with us is of fundamental importance for any field.
Now, maybe, i also know that people who are working in different areas, not only have different languages, different background, different aims but also different way to approach problems.
But crossing the boundaries and work in multi-disciplinary or cross-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary fields is also what all my friends seems to be doing now..
Biology, Fluids, Quantum, Data Mining, Internet, just to cite my very close best friends in the control group.
Maybe, you need to start in a field and then you get tired and you start looking around. Maybe is the middle-life crisis.
I still believe that what you should always ask to yourself and let the young ask to themselves is not 'how many papers did i publish last year?'
but 'did i learn something interesting?' 'did i understand what i was doing?'
I worked as researcher in Politecnico di Torino, where i met Letizia. She was researcher there, too. We were used to talk, talk and talk. Especially during some travel back and forth from Torino to Tuscany.
One of the topic of our conversations was research: the reciprocal need of understanding what the other one was doing for research.
We are in two different areas, she is in computer science and i am in systems and control.
I remember that she was always asking me: but, why are you doing this? what is the reason to do this? What methodology are you using? Who suggested the problem. Are you interested in solving problems that somebody else is giving you or in solutions that can be useful in general. Ans so on.. In what you think to be an expert? Do you think that my interests in software engineering and yours, that actually i do not
get, could have some common point? do you think we can find a common topic of research?
After years of misunderstanding, the friendship was increasing but we still did not really get what the other was doing.
Years went by, i moved to Palermo, she moved to Trondheim, Norway, still trying to find a common topic of research.
Then, we started to reflect more closely on research methods.
She started working on this topic (that was indeed the real topic of our long conversations) and she started teaching some classes for phd students and experts in team.
Finally, i realized that this was the argument i also wanted to investigate, and i
also noticed that in our field none is never talking about research methods.
I realize that to investigate in what is behind what we are doing (research methods..), share experience with others and let the young people and phd students learn by teaching us or teach by learning with us is of fundamental importance for any field.
Now, maybe, i also know that people who are working in different areas, not only have different languages, different background, different aims but also different way to approach problems.
But crossing the boundaries and work in multi-disciplinary or cross-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary fields is also what all my friends seems to be doing now..
Biology, Fluids, Quantum, Data Mining, Internet, just to cite my very close best friends in the control group.
Maybe, you need to start in a field and then you get tired and you start looking around. Maybe is the middle-life crisis.
I still believe that what you should always ask to yourself and let the young ask to themselves is not 'how many papers did i publish last year?'
but 'did i learn something interesting?' 'did i understand what i was doing?'
posted by LAURA at 1:11 PM
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