Resources on Academia and Research

• You and your research by R. Hamming
• On getting into graduate school:
• Choosing Graduate School in CS, by Rachel Pottinger
• Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school, by Philip Agre
• CRA article on being a graduate student
• On being a graduate student:
• A PhD Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science, by Peter Feibelman. ISBN: 0-2016-2663-2
• How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors, by Marie desJardins
• What Should Graduate Students Know Before Joining a Large Computer Architecture Project?, by Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
• Networking on the Network, by Philip Agre
• How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab, edited by David Chapman
• Guides for Theoretical Computer Scientists, by Ian Parberry
• Slides on giving talks and interviewing, by Margo Seltzer
• Info on science careers, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Graduate student survival guide, Stanford University Med School
• Careers in Engineering: A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond. ISBN: 0-309-05393-5
• Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a PhD, by Robert Peters. ISBN: 0-3745-2477-7
• CRA article
• On writing papers:
• An evaluation of the ninth SOSP submissions -or- How (and how not) to write a good systems paper, Roy Levin and David D. Redell, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 17(3):35-40 (July, 1983).
• How to get your paper accepted at OOPSLA, Alan Snyder, OOPSLA '91 Proceedings, pp. 359-363.
• How to get a paper accepted at OOPSLA, Ralph Johnson et al, panel at OOPSLA'93, pp 429-436.
• "The Task of the Referee", Alan Jay Smith, IEEE Computer, 23(4):65-71 (April 1990).
• On technical writing:
• Good Writing, by Marc Raibert.
• "The Science of Scientific Writing", by George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan, American Scientist, Volume 78, pages 550-558.
• The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. The classic book on writing. ISBN: 0-024-18200-1
• How To Write, by Herbert E. Meyer and Jill M. Meyer. A great overview of the writing process. ISBN: 1-566-19272-2
• Bugs in Writing, by Lyn Dupre. A rather long (but comprehensive) book on writing clean prose. ISBN: 0-201-60019-6
• On being a professor:
• Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure, by Clay Schoenfeld and Robert Magnan. ISBN: 0-9121-5035-1
• Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for an Academic Career in Science and Engineering, by Richard Reis. ISBN: 0-7803-1136-1
• Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers. ISBN: 0-3090-4931-8
• The Academic's Handbook, edited by A. Leigh Deneef and Craufurd D. Goodwin. ISBN: 0-8223-1673-0
• Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, by Wilbert J. McKeachie. 0-669-19434-4
• Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus, by Robert Boice. 0-205-28159-1
• Appropriate fiction:
• Small World, by David Lodge
• Changing Places, by David Lodge
• A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
• Organizations:
• American Association of University Professors
• Science-By-Mail, a fun way to teach kids science.
• Sigma Xi
• Relevant magazines:
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Lingua Franca