[Research] Auton Lab's Pride List

[Artur Dubrawski]

I strongly support Karen's initiative and I ask everyone
to please contribute to it.

We've done so many wonderful things, but in terms of their PR life,
sadly, they die too quickly if the only trace left is in the form
of high quality research papers. Without accessible, user-level
descriptions they surely miss a vast part of their potentially
interesting audience.

Now, with the AdWords opportunity, we finally have a very good
excuse to put together a sort of a success stories binder.  
I am certain it will help bring many interesting research topics 
our way, if we do it right. 
Please do not hesitate to help Karen (and the Lab) make that happen.

Thanks!
Artur


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:34, Karen Chen wrote:
> Let's compile a pride list of Auton Lab!
> 
> At Auton Lab, we're proud of doing things that are cool, great, with
> high-impact and eventually will benefit the world.  In the past more than
> one decade, this implicit value system has motivated our lab members to do
> excellent project one after another and create numerous successful stories
> where we demonstrated to the world our true value. Now, let's take some
> time  to reflect our greatest achievement at Auton Lab that you're mostly
> proud  of. The result from this exercise will be compiled into a "success
> stories"  webpage on our Auton website, this would provide an efficient
> overview of lab's capability to outsider visitor who is looking into our
> lab for solutions. In the Adwords program soon to be launched, this
> webpage would serve as the landing page for the visitors directed from
> Adwords search.  (P.S. Google Adwords is a free advertisement program
> recently awarded through Google Grant).
> 
> Please list THREE greatest things that you and/or your colleagues have
> done that we should be so proud to tell people outside the lab.  Here are
> some guidelines:
> 
> *the work should have real world impact or have potential real impact,
> substantiated with concrete application example are especially desirable;
> 
> *start from your own work, but you could also cite other lab member's
> work;
> 
> *take perspective of user: what's the significance of your work? What
> they could benefit from your work? Why they should care?
> 
> *describe in a snappy way so that even a busy people you meet in the
> elevator would chase you for more information after your 30 second preach;
> 
> *describe in plain language so that even your grandma has no problem to
> understand;
> 
> Lab Alumni are also encouraged to contribute. If you feel like to list
> more than three, feel free to extend the list.  Please submit your answer
> to me by noon next Thursday (May 4). The list would be compiled and shared
> among all lab members. We will discuss more details about the "success
> stories"  webpage and Adwords campaign design in the upcoming lab meeting,
> so it's imperative that you finish this "homework" by then.
> 
> Please direct your questions to Artur or me.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> ****************************
> Karen Chen
> Research Analyst - Auton Lab
> e-mail: lujiec at cs.cmu.edu
> ****************************
> 
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