Priya Narasimhan, and pictures of some of her research projects (football engineering, YinzCam, Trinetra)
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH & TECHNICAL WRITING

WRITING TECHNICAL PAPERS/ABSTRACTS
Some of the advice is specific to a conference/community.
How to write a good [systems] paper (things I wish my mother had told me), John Wilkes, EuroSys 2006 Authoring Workshop
Advice to authors of extended abstracts, William Pugh, SIGPLAN Notices 26, 6 (June 1991), pp. 353-356
How to get your paper accepted at OOPSLA, OOPSLA 1991 (also see comments from OOPSLA 1993 Panel on the same topic)
How (and how not) to write a good systems paper (An evaluation of the ninth SOSP submissions), Roy Levin and David Redell, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July, 1983), pages 35-40.
How to have your abstract rejected, Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton
Writing technical articles (with plenty of additional resources on writing and presenting), Henning Schulzrinne
A referee's plea (from an ACM SIGCOMM reviewer), Mark Allman, 2001
How to increase the chances your paper is accepted at SIGCOMM, Craig Partridge, ACM Computer Communication Review, 28(3), July 1998.
Engineering Statistics Handbook, NIST: Invaluable resource for presenting, evaluating and performing empirical research
Conference acceptance-rate statistics, Kevin Almeroth, University of California Santa Barbara
Ethics and etiquette in scientific research, David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University
How to write a good (no, great) Ph.D. dissertation, Priya Narasimhan, Keynote, PhD Symposium, International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Chicago, IL, December 2006

MUST-READ BOOKS
Every graduate student should read these at one point or another.
Bugs in Writing, Dupre, Addison-Wesley
Elements of Style, Strunk & White -- online version
Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte

LaTeX RESOURCES
LaTeX FAQ
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): Style files (.sty and .cls files) and other TeX-related software
CTAN's archive for IEEEtran (e.g., IEEEtran.cls)
CTAN's archive for citations (e.g., cite.sty)
IEEE conference proceedings style file(latex8.sty)
IEEE journal (Transactions) style file (IEEEtran.cls)
ACM conference proceedings style file
ACM journal (Transactions) style file (acmtrans2e.cls)
USENIX conference proceedings style file

READING TECHNICAL PAPERS
The task of the referee, A.J. Smith, IEEE Computer, vol. 23, April 1990, pages 65-71

LIFE DURING & AFTER GRADUATE RESEARCH
Building a Research Career, Francine Berman, Career Mentoring Workshop, Computing Research Association (CRA)
Getting a Job (academic vs. industrial positions; interviewing for faculty positions), Francine Berman, Career Mentoring Workshop, Computing Research Association (CRA)
Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Dianne Prost O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park
How to be a Good Graduate Student, Marie desJardins
How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab, David Chapman
Giving a Practice Talk for the Qualifier Exam, Teresa Lau
Fellowship Resource Advising Center (FRAC), Carnegie Mellon University
Time Management, Randy Pausch

OBTAINING RESEARCH FUNDING
Advice on writing proposals, particularly to NSF, Susan Finger
Grant Proposal Guide (GPG), National Science Foundation
Funding your best ideas: A 12-step program, US Department of Education
Obtaining federal funding, Caroline Wardle, National Science Foundation, Career Mentoring Workshop, Computing Research Association (CRA)

HUMOR
How to have a Bad Career in Research/Academia, David Patterson, keynote address, OSDI 1994
Piled Higher and Deeper, a grad student comic strip, Jorge Cham
The "Real" Meaning of Research Phrases
Automatic Systems-Research Topic OR Paper-Title Generator, Barath Raghavan

SEARCHING TOOLS AND ONLINE PAPERS
Net Library: CMU e-library book collection
ACM Digital Library (on-line papers) CMU has a site license
IEEE Xplore Library (on-line papers & standards) CMU has a site license
NECI web search (on-line papers, provided by authors)
Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library - online technical reports in computer science
MIL Standards on-line
Safety-critical systems
NASA Langley Technical Reports Server (LTRS)

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Last updated: 7 September 2009, Priya Narasimhan