Advice on 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