You and your research by Dr. Richard Hamming

Few days back, I read an interesting article by Dr. R. Hamming. If you have taken any signal processing course then you must have studied about "Hamming windows". He gave a very interesting talk "You and your resarch" in Bell labs on March 7, 1986.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

I liked his talk. Basically he says that how to be a good scientist. He does not give you tips. He explains his experience and tells what he noticed in great scientists.

It is a must read article for any PhD student. According to his article, one should first know the top 10 problems in his field. Then, you pick up one of them and try to understand the problem. See what people are proposing as solutions. Science is cumulative, so you need to build on the top of whatever is already proposed by others. Suggest something which adds on the existing framework.

I will share more ideas from his talk in my next blog.