ADVICE
- Lying on your resume
- More effective studying? (NY Times)
- John Regehr on How to Debug
- My page with general advice on electronic library resources, written for orienting my new research students
- Original version of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan's The Science of Scientific Writing, American Scientist, November-December, 1990, 78(6), pp. 550-558.
- Alan Jay Smith's paper The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer, April 1990, 23(4), pp. 65-71
- Alan Meier's page on How to Review a Technical Paper
- Greg Turk's page on Writing Technical Reviews
- Marie des Jardin's paper How to Succeed in Graduate School
- Dave Patterson's talk on How to Have a Bad Career
- Transcript of Richard Hamming's talk You and Your Research
- Levin and Redell's paper on An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions -or- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
- Summary of Dr. Dorothy Duff Brown's Thesis/Dissertation Writing Workshop and a Database of Professional Thesis Consultants
INFORMATION
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
- Outputting figures from matlab so fonts are readable
- Getting started with LaTeX
- An excerpt about stereotype threat from a Malcolm Gladwell article
