CS 7001: Resources for PhD students

Fall 2005

Local Resources

• CoC PhD program information, a general starting point.
• Area Advisors
• Breadth Component information, to help you decide on courses to take.
• Qualifying Exam information, to help you decide on areas of concentration for your research.

Books

• Robert L. Peters, Getting what you came for, Noda Publishing 1997 (Revised Edition) ISBN: 0374524777.
• Bruno Latour, Science in Action : How to Follow Scientists and EngineersThrough Society, Harvard University Press, 1988, ISBN: 0674792912.
• Lyn Dupre, Bugs in Writing : A Guide to Debugging Your Prose, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN: 0201600196.

General Matters

• Useful Things to Know About Ph.D. Thesis Research H. T. Kung.
• Ph.D. Advice collected by College of Computing folks.
• "How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors", Marie desJardins, Crossroads, December 1994 and February 1995. Part 1 . Part 2 .
• "How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab" , David Chapman
• Building a research career, getting a job, obtaining funding, networking, teaching, Computing Research Association
• Researching your way to a career, UIUC Graduate Education Forum
• Advice on Research and Writing from CMU
• The Researchers' Bible (How to survive a PhD)

Chossing Advisors

• "Choosing Your Major Advisor" from The Graduate Newsletter, Spring 1991.

Ethics and Responsibility

• "On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research" from the National Academy of Sciences

Writing

• An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, or, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper by Roy Levin and David D. Redell
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
• How to get your paper accepted at OOPSLA
• How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM
• A Referee's Plea
• Advice on Research and Writing
• Olin Shivers' Dissertation Advice
• Resources on Research, Writing, and Careers in Computer Science
• CHI Guide to successful submissions: Paper

Giving Talks

• "How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science" , Ian Parberry
• Tips for Prepar ing Presentations (Office of Naval Research)
• Preparing Your Oral Presentation
• Tips for a Better Generated Slide Presentation (United Engineering Foundation)
• Guidelines for Preparing Posters (United Engineering Foundation)

Reviewing Papers

• "The Task of the Referee", Alan J. Smith, IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, No. 4, April 1990, pp. 65-73.
• "A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science" , Ian Parberry,

Teaching

• "Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn" from The Graduate Newsletter, Spring 1990.