Computer Science research for practitioners, lessons from The Morning Paper

Should practitioners follow computer science research? Surely there’s enough to learn and keep up to date with without bothering about things that may be several years out? For the last 3 years Adrian Colyer has been reading a computer science research paper every weekday, and writing a summary on his blog, 'The Morning Paper'. In this talk, he’ll make the case that following CS research can be a highly rewarding, and highly relevant activity, mostly by letting a selection of papers themselves do the talking!