CPS 701
Introduction to Graduate Study

Compiled wisdom

• Wisdom of the ages (courtesy of Mike Dahlin)
• Advice for researchers and students (Mike Ernst)
• Fall 11: Advice for graduate students (From an earlier offering of this course from Jun Yang)

Being a student

• Breaking the undergraduate mentality (Jason Hong)
• Time management, or Kill Your Television (Randy Pausch, 1997)
• So long and thanks for the Ph.D. (Ronald Azuma, 1997)
• How to be a good graduate student (desJardins, 1994)
• The art and science of thesis avoidance (Jayne Higgins, 2000)

Being a researcher/technologist/engineer

• You and your research (Richard Hamming)
• Networking on the network (Phil Agre, 1993)
• How to be a star engineer (pdf) (Kelley, 2000)
• The somatic engineer (pdf) (Peter Denning, 2002)
  
• Useful thoughts about research (HT Kung)

Writing and speaking

• The Elements of Style (Strunk and White)
• Giving a good conference talk (pdf) (Mike Dahlin)
• How to give a bad talk
• How to write a good systems paper (Levin and Redell, 1983)
• On active and passive writing [pdf] (Peter Denning)
• Chase's writing commandments (Chase)

Peer review

• The invisible hand of peer review
• The task of the referee (Alan Jay Smith, 1990)
• A guide for new referees [pdf] (Ian Parberry)
• Bias and double-blind reviewing" (Kathryn McKinley, 2015)
• How to read an engineering research paper (William G. Griswold)

Teaching

• Teaching as a social process (pdf) (Peter Denning)

Gone but not forgotten (Dead links to look up)

• How to do research at the MIT AI Lab (David Chapman, 1988)
• Good writing (Marc Raibert, 1985)
• The science of scientific writing (Gopen/Swan, 1990)
• Lots more advice on research and writing (Justin Zobel)