On: Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996

[chrisseaton]

> Grad students making significant contributions is extremely rare; basically all of the real research is done by tenured professors.

...but most of these first authors (the people formally credited with doing the real work) are graduate students, so how does that fit in with your theory?

[earthicus → chrisseaton]

I specifically made that claim of mathematics and theoretical physics, and requested first hand accounts of how it worked in CS.

[chrisseaton → earthicus]

So how does it work in your field? Making your own significant contribution is literally the basic standard required for a PhD in most fields.

[earthicus → chrisseaton]

Well i think it just depends on how 'significant' you need the phd to be. As an example of what I mean, consider the first issue of this years Annals of mathematics [1] and note that there is not a single grad student on any of the papers, first author or otherwise.

[1] http://annals.math.princeton.edu/2018/188-1