Research-Related Notes
Peer-Reviewing Papers
- How to Review a Technical Paper
- How to Review a Scientific Paper, Barak Pearlmutter
General Research
- You and Your Research, Richard Hamming
- How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia, Dave Patterson
- Ethics and Etiquette in Scientific Research, David Touretzky
- How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
- Advice on Research and Writing
- Networking on the Network
Giving Talks
- Advice on How to Give a Talk, David MacKay
- How to give a good research talk, Simon L Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury
(The slides are very highly recommended.) - Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught, Gian-Carlo Rota
Specific Points About Talks
- Make only one main point.
- Try to find an example to illustrate almost everything you say.
- Start out with an example of the sort of problem that motivated this research.
- Don’t include a contents slide.
- Do include “waypoint” slides.
- Talks are for advertising, not for conveying all the details.
- Avoid shallow “overview” talks.
- Don’t apologize.
- Write the slides the night before.
Writing Papers
- Writing Advice, Dave Patterson
- Grounds for Rejection
- Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math, Jonathan Shewchuk
- Always Avoid…
Making Posters