Matt Welsh's Blog

Death by peer review: I recently had the occasion to give some advice a friend who was considering making the... http://bit.ly/25KCAPZ 

Why I gave your paper a Strong Accept: See also: Why I gave your paper a Strong RejectI know this blog is most... http://bit.ly/23XJPqz 

Why I gave your paper a Strong Reject: I'm almost done reviewing papers for another conference, so you know wh... http://bit.ly/242ZjG8 

Everything I did wrong as a professor: I really screwed things up as a young faculty member at Harvard. It wor... http://bit.ly/1T9TpjZ 

Academics, we need to talk.: Although I made the move to industry a bit more than five years ago, I still serv... http://bit.ly/1mDYCD2 

What I learned about mobile usage in Indonesia: A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Jakarta to understand mobi... http://bit.ly/1VblbL9 

A modest proposal: SOSIGCOMMOBIXDI: I have a problem: there are way too many conferences to attend. Even worse... http://bit.ly/1Qjhmkx 

Flywheel: Google's Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web: Next week, we'll be presenting our work on the C... http://bit.ly/1EyoTXB 

How do you become a conference chair?: I've served as program chair and general chair for a number of conferen... http://bit.ly/17oNjqX 

Day in the Life of a Google Manager: Not long after joining Google back in 2010, I wrote this cheeky piece con... http://bit.ly/1CpG11t 

You'll be fine in Silicon Valley: Yesterday, a group of well-known professors from a bunch of universities sen... http://bit.ly/1w8E5VR 

The Fame Trap: The other day I was speaking with a group of interns about the differences between the academic... http://bit.ly/1ovTspH 

The Google career path, Part 3: Performance reviews and promotions: This is the third part of a series of post... http://bit.ly/1lQ8Hc2 

The NCSSM 2014 commencement address: This morning I had the distinct pleasure of delivering the commencement a... http://bit.ly/1wJYH8J 

The Google career path, Part 2: Starting new projects: In my last blog post, I talked about what it's like to ... http://bit.ly/QgQhUZ 

The Google career path, part 1: Getting started: Apart from how to get a job at Google (which I have previousl... http://bit.ly/1mjkehR 

Taking the "Hot" out of "Hot Topics" workshops: I just got back from HotMobile 2014 (for which I was the gener... http://bit.ly/1bSOPSK 

Getting a job at Google for PhD Students: I happen to sit on one of the hiring committees at Google, which loo... http://bit.ly/1fCq9uU 

Your Field Guide to Industrial Research Labs: There are a lot of different kinds of industrial research organi... http://tinyurl.com/kkywe5g 

Google did not steal the smart contact lens from Microsoft: Wired is carrying an article rather provocatively ... http://bit.ly/LrSYkh