How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia (latest version)
Presented 11/18/15 at UC Berkeley Seminar . This version includes advice for graduate students and people starting their research careers post PhD, including video advice from Richard Hamming. It has "How to Give a Bad Talk" as a portion of this talk too.
Presented 2/11/02 at CRA Academic Careers Workshop in Washington D.C. This is a slightly revised and updated version, including advice from Richard Hamming and Ivan Sutherland.
Slides: powerpoint 2000 (800 KB)
Slides: Slides (landscape, color, 1/page, pdf) (800 KB)
How to Give a Bad Talk
First given circa 1983 to Berkeley students
PDF summary of presentation (56 KB)
How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
Presented 11/29/01 at Berkeley. This is a revised and updated version of the 1997 talk, including advice for graduate students, writing, posters, and more focus on PowerPoint presentations.
Slides (landscape, color, 1/page, pdf) (516 KB)
Slides: powerpoint 2000 (800 KB)
Advice on writing
Not a talk, but some guidelines on writing.
Peer Instruction Intro
Presented 11/19/01 at Faculty Lunch. This talk reviews Peer Instruction, Just-in-time-teaching, and PRS electronic voting in the classroom.
Slides: pdf, powerpoint
One View of the Berkeley Community/Culture (from a person with CS heritage)
Presented April, 2001, EECS Faculty Retrerat
Slides: powerpoint 2000 (592K)
Patterson's Projects and What's Next?,
Presented Sept. 18, 2000, at Helzel Room, Haas School of Business,
Sequoia Captical Visit
Slides: powerpoint 97 (284K)
Introduction to Hardware/Architecture for CSTB Staff,
Presented March, 2000, Washington DC.
Slides: powerpoint 97 (3,430K)
How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia (earliest version)
Presented at the Academic Careers Workshop sponsored by the Computing Research Association on June 4, 1997 in Denver, Colorado.
Slides (landscape, black and white, 4/page, postscript) (1184 KB)
Slides (landscape, color, 1/page, pdf) (145 KB)
Mac Powerpoint 4.0 (174 KB)
Patterson's Rules for New Computer Science and Engineering Professors
Presented at the Academic Careers Workshop sponsored by the Computing Research Association on June 5, 1997 in Denver, Colorado.
A Working Partnership: A View From Academia
Keynote address at Conference on Computer Science: A Working Partnership Joining Government, Indsutry, and Academia, at University of Maryland, College Park on March 30, 1994