Links

For Students

• Do I really want a Ph.D.? What does a Ph.D. entail? (Section 2), Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter, CMU

• The Beginner's Creed, Prof. Peter J. Denning, Naval Postgraduate School

• You and Your Research [Video] [Transcription], Dr. Richard Hamming

• PhD Research: Elements of Excellence, Prof. Ness B. Shroff, The Ohio State University [Video]

• Claude Shannon and George Boole, Enablers of the Information Age [Video] [Slides], Prof. Robert G. Gallager, MIT

• The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research, Dr. Edsger Dijkstra

• How to Succeed in Grad School, Panel discussion at The Networking Channel

• How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia, Prof. David Patterson, UC Berkeley

• Managing Your Career as a PhD, Prof. Deepa Kundur, University of Toronto

• How to Read a Paper, Prof. Srinivasan Keshav, University of Cambridge

• How to Look for Ideas in Computer Science Research, Prof. Zhiyun Qian, University of California, Riverside

• How to pick a (research) project [Part 1: Coming up with research ideas] [Part 2: Organizing and evaluating research ideas], Dr. Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Microsoft Research

• How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, by Georg Polya

• The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, by Joseph Williams and Joseph Bizup

• Log of Comments on Writing, Prof. Soung-Chang Liew, CUHK

• Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing, Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas, MIT

• Mathematical Writing, Profs. Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts

• Writing Perfect Papers, Prof. Baochun Li, University of Toronto

• The Art of Presentations, Prof. Baochun Li, University of Toronto

• Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, Prof. Randy Pausch, CMU

• Time Management, Prof. Randy Pausch, CMU