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Graduate Research, Writing, and Careers in Computer Science

Graduate Student Orientation

You can find the slides from the graduate student orientation here

You can find the Iowa State University Computer Science Graduate Student Handbook here

Useful Books on Graduate Studies, Research and Careers in Computer Science

You can find a list of extremely useful books on research, scientific ethics, writing, dissertations, and scientific careers that I recommend to all of my graduate students here.

Online Resources on Graduate Study in Computer Science

• Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School by Phil Agre.
• Notes on the Ph.D. Degree, by Doug Comer
• How to Succeed in Graduate School - A Guide for Students and Advisors by Marie desJardins.
• Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual by Dianne Prost O'Leary.
• Graduate School Survival Guide, Wanda Pratt.
• Tomorrow's Professor - Excerpts from Richard Reis's book with the same title.
• Computer Science Graduate School Survival Guide by Ronald Azuma.
• Graduate School Superstars
• How to Choose a PhD advisor by Michael Loui. Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual by Dianne Prost O'Leary.
• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre
• How to be terrible graduate student (by Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto).
• How to cope with "burnout", by Andreas Gehmeyr.

Online Resources on Ethics

• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research from the National Academy of Sciences. Podcast.
• Course on Responsible Conduct in Research, from Columbia University
  • Responsible Authorship and Peer Review
  • Collaborative Science
  • Data Acquisition and Management
  • Mentoring
  • Research Misconduct
  • Conflicts of Interest
• Integrity in Scientific Research, Videos from American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Ethics in Computing by Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University
• Association of Computing Machinery Computing and Public Policy Page (including Code of Ethics)
• Iowa State University's Code of Computer Ethics
• Netiquette, by Virginia Shea.
• Resources on Plagiarism and How to Avoid it Iowa State University Library.
• On Line Ethics Center for Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

Online Resources on Research in Computer Science

• You and your research, by Richard Hamming.
• A Letter to Research Students, by Duane A. Bailey
• How to Read a Research Paper
• How to do research in Computer Science by Michael Schillo, German Research Center for AI.
• Research Methods in Computer Science (Tom Dietterich's course at Oregon State).
• Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual, by Dianne O'Leary
• How to do Research in the MIT AI Lab, ed. David Chapman
• How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia by David Patterson
• Dissertation News, published by The Association for Support of Graduate Students.

Online Resources on Writing, Publication, and Presentation

Grammar and Style

• The Writer's Handbook, from the University of Wisconsin
• Elements of Style, William Strunk
• Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling from Purdue University
• Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization - A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors, from NASA.
• Information Systems and Technology Style Guide, from Berkeley

Writing a Thesis

• Writing and Presentation of Thesis or Dissertation by Joseph Levine.
• How to write a Ph.D. thesis by Joe Wolfe
• On Ph.D. Thesis Proposals, by H. C. Lauer
• How to write up a Ph.D. dissertation, Jason Eisner
• Structure of CS Dissertations, by Spencer Rugaber
• How to write a thesis in an Experimental area of Computer Science by Doug Comer.
• How to Organize Your Thesis by John Chinneck
• Thesis Defense by Chris Riesbeck
• Hints on Ph.D. Thesis Defense by Ed Coffman, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Sal Stolfo.
• Preparing for Ph.D. Defense by Andrew Broad.

Writing Papers and Abstracts

• How to Publish a Scientific Paper, by Sharon Downes
• Me Write Pretty One Day: How to Write a Good Scientific Paper, ASCB Women in Cell Biology
• How to write up your results for publication, Paul Doughty
• How to Write a Good Research Paper, by Simon Peyton Jones.
• How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper by Roy Levin and David D. Redell
• Hints on good mathematical writing, by David Goss
• A primer on mathematical writing, by Steven L. Kleiman
• Mathematical Writing by Don Knuth (including videos of lectures).
• How not to write a research paper by Oded Goldreich
• Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts, by William Pugh
• How To Have Your Abstract Rejected, by van Leunen and Lipton.
• Ian Parberry's Guide for for New Referees
• Technical Writing Tips by Henning Schulzrinne

Presenting Research

• How to Give a Good Research Talk, by Simon Peyton Jones et al. Talk
• Presenting Research by Marie desJardins
• Michael Ernst on giving a talk
• Ian Parberry's Guide for Speakers
• On Short Talks, by Charles Van Loan, Cornell University
• Tips on giving a 15-minute talk Scott Keogh

Writing Research Proposals

• The Art of Grantsmanship, by Jacob Kraicer
• How to Write a Strong Research Proposal by Simon Peyton Jones and Alan Bundy. Talk
• Tips for Writing Research Proposal by Joseph Levine
• A Guide for Proposal Writing, from the National Science Foundation
• All About Grants from the National Institutes of Health

Online Resources for Women in Computer Science

• CRA Committee on Status of Women in Computer Science with many pointers to resources for women in computing.

Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships

• Graduate Assistantships, Fellowships, Scholarships
• Graduate Teaching Assistantships
• Graduate Traineeships in Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology
• Yahoo! Graduate Fellowships
• AT&T Fellowships
• Homeland Security Fellowships
• INTEL Graduate Fellowships
• Microsoft Graduate Fellowships
• B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Program
• Merril Lynch Grants Competition
• National Academy of Science Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowship Programs
• National Physical Sciences Consortium Fellowship Program for Minorities and Women
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowships
• NASA Graduate Fellowships
• National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowships
• Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program
• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
• Department of Energy High Performance Computing Fellowships
• NVIDIA Fellowship Program
• American Association of University Women - American Fellowships
• American Association of University Women - International Fellowships
• Luce Scholarship Program
• Google Scholarships
• Iowa State University office of Financial Aid
• Financial Aid

Online Resources on Careers in Computer Science

• Ph.D. Careers, from Berkeley
  • What you can do as a second year grad student
  • What to do when you advance to Ph.D. candidacy
  • Academic job listings
  • The CV
  • The Cover Letter
  • Letters of recommendation
  • Teaching Portfolio
  • Hiring process from the other side
  • Negotiating the offer
• Computing Research and Academic Jobs
• Higher Education Jobs
• ACM Career Center
• AI Jobs
• Bioinformatics Jobs
• Biomedical and Health Informatics Jobs
• ISCB Computational Biology jobs
• Bioplanet.com Bioinformatics Jobs
• Science Careers, American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• IEEE Job Site
• Nature Jobs
• New Scientist Jobs
• Chronicle Careers
• Academic Careers
• Higher Education Jobs
• Careers in the Academia
• Yahoo! Hot Jobs
• Career Builder
• On-line Job Services
• CareerPath
• Monster.com
• Recruiter Network
• i-recruit.com

Online Resources on Life after Graduate School

• Transition form graduate student to assistant professor
• The Assistant Professor's Guide to the Galaxy by George Bekey.
• Resources for new professors by Nigel Ward.

Humor

• Ph.D. Comics
• A Day in the Life of a Graduate Student
• Burnout Prevention and Recovery at MIT
• Nerd Songs
• A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases
• Philosophical Humor, Dave Chalmers
• All Computer Humor
• Omri's Computer Humor Page
• Laughnet Computer Humor
• Tina's Humor: Computer