Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask[1], but I've read a lot of good comments on other topics here so I'll just ask. At the moment I'm searching for a topic for my dissertation (Ph.d in non-german countries I think), which must have to do something with parallelism or concurrency, etc. but otherwise I'm quite free to chose what I'm...
In my experience, generally speaking, CS PhDs are used to work hard and put in many hours are more motivated than others professionally can analyze a problem effectively can communicate very well in presentations and reports Thus, what is the best reason not to hire a PhD on your development team? And how do you recognize this nega...
I'm at a crossroads. I'm not to far away from graduating with a 1st class BSc degree with honours in computer science. I basically have two options, I could go into a graduate training scheme at somewhere like Accenture or Microsoft etc etc or I can stay at University and study for a (very expensive) PHD. Any thoughts? edit: If a Unive...
Based on actions I've seen management take in recent weeks it seems clear that they are preparing for a layoff at my company. I also have reasons to suspect that there's a good chance I'm on the "list". Given that the job market for programmers in my area seems to be pretty much dead and likely will be for a while, I'm considering appl...
EDIT: This has been closed and I realise that I may not have been specific enough with the original title. I ask two questions here: The general one (Does a PhD help get a job?) which has been asked elsewhere, and the specific one (Is it possible to get work outside of the specific research field?). Assume I've already decided going to ...
I graduated from a Project 211 university in mainland China this April. I have promised a professor in Hong Kong to begin pursuing a Ph.D. under his supervision in September. However, after living in HK for several months, I find I want an American Ph.D. The main reason is that the US has the best research environment, and a US Ph.D. de...
There are couple of posts that are asking about PhD etc but they don't answer my question. I have few years left till I finish my undergraduate course (MEng CS), but I already started thinking of doing PhD and honestly cannot make my mind about it. Some people say that it might be worth doing PhD after I graduate as the economic situati...
I'm doing a master's degree in computer science, and I'm currently at the point where I have to decide between the thesis and non-thesis options offered by my university. The thesis option was my first choice, it entails taking less courses but tends to take more time doing your thesis. The non-thesis option involves taking more coursewo...
I have a PHD format heap dump from an IBM jvm and I wish to examine the values of some strings. With the Sun JVM's binary hprof dumps this is possible, but I haven't been able to recover this information from an IBM dump. I've tried: Eclipse Memory Analyzer (0.8.0.200906170940) with IBM's DTFJ Portal Heap Dump Reader (1.3.0.2009032416...
I am a undergraduate student in Computer Science and wants to pursue a PhD. Since I don't have a good GPA, I've heard that I need to get some research experience to enhance the chance of getting admission. However, Due to personal reasons, I'm taking an year off school to go to Substitute Military Service. Because of the nature of the J...
I am currently doing my MS degree in computer science. i have a 100% Graduate Assistantship at my university, and I am currently working as a full-time software developer at a company. I admit that its very tough to do both....but doable. So my question is: is it possible to do PhD in this way too. I mean is it possible to have a part-ti...
I'm not exactly sure which stackexchange site to post this on, so I'll throw it on here and see how it goes. I recently graduated with a master's in computer science, and am looking to move onward towards a phd. What I am currently struggling with is what sort of program I'd like to go into. From what I understand, its something I sho...
Hi everyone! I would like to attend graduate courses for PhD degree, but still don't have an idea about my future thesis topic. Could you help me please, maybe any ideas? I'm in despair! I'm an application programmer, have quitly big experience of practical programming on Java and less but also good knowledges of Python. In Java I know S...