| "Royalties" from my dissertation. At 3000+ hours of work we are looking at less than one U.S. penny per hour. That's 249 hours for a Happy Meal, but only 100 hours for a nice cup of Java! | 
Maintaining Retrieval Effectiveness in Distributed, Dynamic Information Retrieval Systems. Advisor: James C. French. University of Virginia, May 1996. Abstract. Postscript (1.6 MB) |
| Here's where the money is. Only about 60 hours of work directly related to producing this book chapter. That's $1.67 per hour! (not counting 4 years learning the application and the science.) The book, by the way, is 120 pounds sterling, and I get a free copy! | 
Sieracki, M.E, and C. L. Viles. Enumeration and Sizing of Microorganisms Using Digital Image Analysis, In Digital Image Analysis of Microbes, M.H.F. Wilkinson and F. Schutt, editors, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1998. |