The difference between a journal paper, a conference paper, and a technical report.
The main difference is that journal papers are all "peer-reviewed", which means that it has been reviewed by three to four experts in the field and deemed worthy of publication due to technical merit, etc. Conference papers are also peer-reviewed, but the work is not expected to be as "complete" as a journal paper. A technical report has not been peer-reviewed and is published by professors and/or graduate students via their respective computer science departments. The target audience for all three of these papers is very different, thus they are written with the target audience in mind.(Complements of Dr. Antón)
What it means to have faculty involved more in "scholarly research" such as having to write a certain
amount of papers and have them accepted by conferences or journals in order to receive tenure.
The difference between a "terminal MS degree" aka the class route and a thesis route for a Master's degree.
A terminal MS degree means that a degree is received with no lead into a PhD. Dr. Antón received her terminal
MS degree although she did research on the side.
That I need to spend more time examining websites that I use for privacy related policies. Especially
the ones I do a lot of money transfer through.
That I need to think more about what privacy means in regards to websites I develop for companies.
The "tenure-track career path" is a laid-back field done on one's own schedule.
Non tenure-track faculty do not engage in research; instead they focus on teaching and instruction. That means they teach during the summer whereas professors like Dr. Antón (tenure-track faculty) get to engage in research with their grad students.
That grad students can get paid a lot as a research assistant as well as tuition, fees, and health care benefits.
Research papers and term papers are different in that every decision made must be justified and explicitly expressed so that no one can ever find any holes in the researcher's work.
e.g. stands for "For example" and i.e. stands for "That is to say". It took a while to distinguish those two because all the people I interviewed, really didn't know. I was shocked to find out that I've been wrong about this distinction my whole life. I thought that i.e. meant "For example", but alas, it doesn't.
