Non-Technical Talks by David Patterson, U.C. Berkeley




How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
Presented 2/11/02 at CRA Academic Careers Workshop in Washington D.C. This is a slightly revised and updated version, including advice from Richard Hamming and Ivan Sutherland.
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How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
Presented 11/29/01 at Berkeley. This is a revised and updated version of the 1997 talk, including advice for graduate students, writing, posters, and more focus on PowerPoint presentations.
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Advice on writing
    Not a talk, but some guidelines on writing.
Peer Instruction Intro
Presented 11/19/01 at Faculty Lunch. This talk reviews Peer Instruction, Just-in-time-teaching, and PRS electronic voting in the classroom.
    Slides: pdf, powerpoint
One View of the Berkeley Community/Culture (from a person with CS heritage)
Presented April, 2001, EECS Faculty Retrerat
     Slides: powerpoint 2000 (592K)
Patterson's Projects and What's Next?,
Presented Sept. 18, 2000, at Helzel Room, Haas School of Business,

Sequoia Captical Visit
            Slides: powerpoint 97 (284K)
Introduction to Hardware/Architecture for CSTB Staff,
Presented March, 2000, Washington DC.
            Slides: powerpoint 97 (3,430K)
How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
Presented at the Academic Careers Workshop sponsored by the Computing Research Association on June 4, 1997 in Denver, Colorado.
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Mac Powerpoint 4.0 (174 KB)
Patterson's Rules for New Computer Science and Engineering Professors
Presented at the Academic Careers Workshop sponsored by the Computing Research Association on June 5, 1997 in Denver, Colorado.
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A Working Partnership: A View From Academia
Keynote address at Conference on Computer Science: A Working Partnership Joining Government, Indsutry, and Academia, at University of Maryland, College Park on March 30, 1994
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