When I started my first tenure track position, I was handed the key to my office and basically told to "go get tenure". Fortunately, I had great advisors who helped me figure out how to do that. I'd like to share some of that advice. 1/ @UFCISE @uf_fics This advice is heavily biased towards positions in Computer Science at R1 universities. There's likely lots of survivorship bias, which means that some of this advice is bad for you. That said, I hope that there are a few things in here that are useful to everyone. 2/

If you’re in the US at the moment, you almost certainly got one of these yesterday. There’s been a lot of confusion about what it is (and what it is not). Let me tell you more about emergency alerts using computer science, history, and of course, Batman. #news 1/ Emergency alerts were deployed in the US in 1951 via the Control of Electromagnetic Radiation (CONELRAD) system. Fearing a nuclear attack during the Cold War, radios could be tuned to 2 AM frequencies (see triangles) to receive civil defense information 2/ radiomuseum.org/forumdata/user…

Let’s add a little context to the discussion of voting security in the US. To do that, I’m going to do something Computer Scientists are bad at - I’m going to talk about history. Specifically, let’s look at the Help America #Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. 1/ The reason to talk about HAVA is to start recognizing some of the challenges of paper ballot-based voting. HAVA came about largely because paper ballots were proving to be extremely difficult to manage. 2/

In my opening remarks at #NDSS18 today, I took a few minutes to talk about the process we took as a Program Committee to build the program. My goal is to increase transparency and improve the academic reviewing experience. (long thread) 1/ These efforts and initiatives were made by both myself and my co-chair, @AlinaMOprea. However, any problems with phrasing or opinions on Twitter are solely my fault. 2/