Useful Links

Conferences/Journals

Graduate School: General

• How to succeed in grad school, (ACM)
• H. T. Kung, Useful things to know about Ph.D. Thesis Research (Harvard Univ.)
• Survival in the Academy

Research

• Richard Hamming, You and Your Research
• Allen Newell's research style
• David A. Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
• Mike Dahlin's advice to systems researchers
• Hari Balakrishnan’s Collected Advice on Research and Writing

Technical Writing & Presentation

• How to read and critique a paper?
• Alan Jay Smith's The Task of the Referee
• John Ousterhout's Hints for Reviewing Papers
• Lecture notes from my Winter'03 Computer Networks (EEC289Q) class
• W. Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 3rd Ed. 1995.
  (Strunk's collection at Bartleby.com)
• How to write a technical paper?
• Armando's Hints on Technical Paper Writing
• David A. Patterson's Writing Advice
• Mark D. Hill, Oral Presentation Advice

Academia

• So You Want to Be a Professor!, Physics Today, April 2001.
• Obtaining an Engineering Academic Position
• Science & Engineering Education Scholars Program
• Richard M. Reis, Tomorrow’s Professor
• Tomorrow's Professor Listserv

Women in Science and Engineering

• Computing Research Association (CRA) - Status of Women in Computing research (CRA-W)
• CRW Career Mentoring Workshop

• Grad Cohort Program

• Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)’s Committee on Women in Computing
• Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, October 15-18, 2003
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Chicago, IL, October 6-9, 2004
• Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WICSE), University of California, Berkeley

Misc

• AcademicInfo
• My colleague, John Owens, has also compiled a list of advice for graduate students & researchers
• A Chronology of Communication Events:
  Part 1 (4004 BC - 1899 AD) and Part 2 (1900 AD - present day)
• NEEDS-Engineering
• ASPIRE

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