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From: sami on 2 Jan 2010 00:17
if you want to start you phd reserch which way you prefer

1_ understanding the subject first by reading books or directly start
reading conference and papers to know which new idea you can find
about your subject

from where you prefer to select papers from for example IEEE
or .........??

if you want to search for a paper which way you prefer
From: HardySpicer on 2 Jan 2010 04:51
On Jan 2, 6:17 pm, sami <jehan...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> if you want to start you phd reserch which way you prefer
>
> 1_  understanding the subject first by reading books or directly start
> reading conference and papers to know which new idea you can find
> about your subject
>
> from where you prefer to select papers from for  example IEEE
> or .........??
>
> if you want to search for  a paper which way you prefer

Nowadays it is all done via Google Scholar which is linked into IEEE
Xplore directly in most Uni libraries.
In the old days you started in a library and found the most recent
paper and worked your way back. Often if you find the key paper all
the others follow. There are more journals than ever now of course but
the Internet narrows things down pretty fast.
It is still possible to miss older articles however and people
frequently do.

Hardy
From: steveu on 2 Jan 2010 06:27
>It is still possible to miss older articles however and people
>frequently do.

Or you locate a reference to them, and the title sounds very interesting,
but find it darned hard to get an actual copy. :-\

Steve

From: paltest on 2 Jan 2010 09:09
>if you want to start you phd reserch which way you prefer
>
>1_ understanding the subject first by reading books or directly start
>reading conference and papers to know which new idea you can find
>about your subject
>
>from where you prefer to select papers from for example IEEE
>or .........??
>
>if you want to search for a paper which way you prefer
>
understanding the subject first by reading books or directly start
reading conference and papers to know which new idea you can find
about your subject


From: Rune Allnor on 2 Jan 2010 12:08
On 2 Jan, 06:17, sami <jehan...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> if you want to start you phd reserch which way you prefer
>
> 1_  understanding the subject first by reading books or directly start
> reading conference and papers to know which new idea you can find
> about your subject

Conference papers are way too crude for learning anything.
At best, they provide references to more useful literature.

As for the PhD stuff, if you find already existing material
on the subject you intend to study, chances are that your
subject does not qualify for the degree - your work might
not be 'novel' if others already have treated it.

So if you want to keep up with the hype surrounding the degree,
you will need to read up on a subject to investigate if there
are uncovered aspect of it that you might base the thesis on.

Which, of course, would mean that there is a risk you do all
the work only to find either that somebody else already have
done what you intended, or that there are no uncovered angles
of the subject.

In which cases your work will not qualify for the degree.

Of course, no one will ever deny you the degree if you already
did all that work, regardless of its novelty or relevance, so
all you need to do is to keep busy for whatever time your
scholarship runs, and write some mumbo jumbo in a thesis.

I don't know if PhD these were ever evaluated on relevance
or novelty of their contents. If so, it ended a very long
time ago.

Rune
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