Franklyn Turbak's Tenure Materials

I am posting all of my tenure materials here, just in case they are useful to anyone else.

• Activities Sheets
• Curriculum Vita
• Personal Statement
• Research Summary
• Support Materials

The most important aspect of these materials is the argument, made in Section 2.4 of my Personal Statement, in computer science in general (and programming languages in particular), conference papers matter as much as, if not more than, journal publications. Thankfully, each of my five anonymous external reviewers said this explicitly in their reviews.

• If you are a computer scientist coming up for tenure or promotion, you may very well need to make an argument similar to the one that I made. Particularly important resources for such an argument are:
  • Patterson, Snyder, and Ullman's Computing Research Association Best Practices Memo, Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers for Promotion and Tenure.
  • The NEC ResearchIndex engine impact rating list, which automatically ranks conferences, workshops, and journals according to the average number of non-self citations per article. At the time of my tenure case, 21 of the top 25 publication venues (and 73 of the top 100) were conferences and workshops.
• If you are a computer scientist reviewing the tenure or promotion case of another computer scientist, please explicitly mention the relative importance of conferences/workshops vs. journal papers in our field.