Advice on Research
Here are some web pages with advice on research, writing, presenting, and life in research:
Manuel Blum's Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student
Mihir Bellare's page on graduate school
and in particular, his thoughts on the
Ph.D. experience
H. T. Kung's
PhD thesis advice
How to do research at the MIT AI Lab
Ivan Sutherland on
Technology and Courage
Richard Hamming on
You and Your Research
Hal Varian on
How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time
Marc Raibert on
writing
Ronald Azuma on
getting through a PhD program
How to give a good research talk: Simon L Peyton Jones, John Launchbury, John Hughes
Mark Hill on
oral presentations
Randy Pausch on
time management
Anthony Maciejewski's links on
writing
Martin Schwartz on the
importance of stupidity in research
Advice for advisors from
Jeffrey Ullman
and
David Patterson
Srinivas Akella
Email: sakella "at" uncc "dot" edu