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Reflections on Strategy Seminar 2014
By Teemu Roos
After conferring with senior professors P. Myllymäki and J. Paakki, we get some perspectives into the main issues at (or with) the department over the years. The discussions are based on the CS department Strategy Seminar of 2014.
Jukka wanted to bring up insufficient faculty turnover as a chronic problem. Our own graduates and junior faculty are so competent that, as a rule, they out-compete their peers in application processes. Of course there are benefits in this: the faculty have good understanding of the department from more than one perspective. Jukka is a good example himself (MSc from the department in 1982, although since those days he has also worked elsewhere). The downside is a risk of stagnation, missing the train.
Petri pointed out that fostering high quality research requires long-term commitment. Without long-term funding, this is hard to achieve. Sufficient basic funding by the department to Principle Investigators would provide better continuity. In the assistant professors' and professors' group, we discussed ways to implement this, for instance, in partnership with doctoral programmes.
Of the discussions in preparation for the strategy seminar, I'd also like to highlight one more topic that was scarcely discussed at the seminar, namely the relationship between our department and other CS departments in Finland, especially at Aalto. We spent quite a bit of time analyzing the different roles in which we can relate ourselves to CS at Aalto. On one hand we compete but on the other hand we are also collaborators. How we should take this into account in terms of focusing our research, recruitment, publicity, etc, will be important for our success.
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