MIT Textbook Chapter on Paper Writing Goes Viral: Only Good Papers Count
Haoyu_Xiong_ · x · 2026-09-27
Chapter 53, "How to Write Papers," from MIT's Foundations of Computer Vision is being shared with the quip that it should be fed to one's coding agents too. Key points:
- Only good papers matter: Drawing on years as mentors, hiring-committee members, and research managers, the authors argue paper quality far outweighs quantity for a research career.
- Classic structure (via advisor Edward Adelson):
- State the problem and make the audience care;
- Briefly cover existing solutions and why they fall short;
- Present your solution, compare, and explain why it's better;
- Close with related work applying similar techniques to different problems.
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