IT Celebrities : Research Oriented

Mohamed Elsayed Elawady

Computer Science Department

Suez Canal University

“IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT MONEY, LEARN FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS A LOT OF IT. ”

Charles J. Givens

Economist

Replace Word “Money” With Word “Research”

Who Are These People?

RSAMD5

Shortest Path AlgorithmStructured Programming

LISP

Quick Sort

UNIX

UTF-8 C

OOP

TCP/IP

Have Something Common?Rather Than Jewish!

Computer Science

Funded By:

Steven Weinberg Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)

No one knows everything, and you don’t have to

Go for the messes; that’s where the action is

Forgive yourself for wasting time

Learn something about the history of your own branch

of science

Four Golden Lessons

“If you want to be creative, then you will have to get used to spending most of your time not being creative, to being becalmed on the ocean of scientific knowledge.”

Jonas Salk - Discoverer of Polio Vaccine (1955)

TV Interviewer:

• Who owns the patent on this vaccine?

Jonas Salk:

• Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Richard HammingTuring Award (1968)

Look for the Difference

Luck Favors the Prepared Mind

Hard work can make up for a lack of intelligence

Work Hard When You Are Young

Don't Try to Solve Problems Just by

Reading

Brains Are Not Enough, You Also Need Courage

Working Hard Is Not Enough

Work with the Door Open or the Door

Closed

Enjoy the Process of Scientific Research

Don't Get Famous When You Are Not

Ready

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success?It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure”

Thomas J. Watson

Founder of

James D. Watson – DNA DiscoveryNobel Prize for Medicine (1962)

Avoid Dumb People

Take Risks

Have A Fallback

Never Do Anything That

Bores You

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,

but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin TofflerSociologist & Futurist

Key Points For Great Research

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Easy to Memorize

Power to Solve