ECS293 Fall 2007

Welcome to the ECS293 Web Page! This is a work in progress, so expect things to change continuously.

Administrative Information

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  • Instructor: Matthew Farrens

  • Class Information (Office Hours, etc.)

  • Syllabus (Class Outline)

Useful links

Talks given in class

• Finding and Managing Information by Prof. Gertz

• Information about giving Presentations by Prof. Farrens

• Being a Researcher by Prof. Rogaway

• Using the Library by Phoebe Ayers

Meetings

• Schedule of Brown Bag lunches on Professional conduct

General Advice

• General advice, grads &UGs (MIT)
• grad school survival guide
• Graduate School Survival Guide (stanford)
• General PhD advice
• How to be a Grad. Student
• How to be a leader in your field
• Doctor Dropout
• Grad. study: a survival manual (O' Leary)
• Networking
• transition to grad student
• Bad Review = Turing award?
• Preparing Faculty (links)

Useful links compiled by others

• useful links
• links from Till Stegers
• Bai's links (scientific computing)
• John Owens, has also compiled a list of advice for graduate students & researchers

Reading, Writing, and Presentation links

• W. Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 3rd Ed. 1995.
  (Strunk's collection at Bartleby.com)
• How and How Not to Write a Good Systems Paper, by SOSP-9 chairs Roy Levin and Dave Redell
• How to write a good OOPSLA paper.  The comments apply equally well to other conferences, IMHO.
• David A. Patterson's Writing Advice
• Talks by Dave Patterson (inluding how to have a bad career)
• advice on research and writing
• math links, general links
• Writing Systems and Networking Articles
• How to be a referee (also good advice on reading a research paper)
• Giving a bad power point talk

Last Modified 11/1/07