Useful Links

Research

Digital Libraries

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore
• Google Scholar
• Citeseer

Conference Calendar and Stats

• Confsearch
• USENIX Calendar
• IEEE Events
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE CS
• IFIP Calendar
• Networking Conferences Statistics
  - by Kevin C. Almeroth

General Advice

• S. Keshav - reveal more than what we need to know
• Michael Ernst - comprehensive advice
• Richard G. Baraniuk - a great list
• Matt Welsh - do you need a PhD
• Ronald T. Azuma - survival guide
• Mihir Bellare - graduate school
• H.T. Kung - useful things to know
• Dianne Prost O'Leary - a manual
• Marie desJardins - how to succeed in graduate school
• MSR 20 Years - reflections
• How to do research at the MIT AI Lab
• How to Do Great Research - Nick Feamster and Alex Gray
• How to be a successful PhD student
• Steve Hand's presentation on system research

Paper Reading, Writing and Publishing

• The Task of the Referee
  - by Alan Jay Smith
• How to Read an Engineering Research Paper
  - by William G. Griswold
• How NOT to review a paper: The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer
  - by Graham Cormode
• Writing Technical Articles & Common Bugs in Writing & Good Introduction
  - by Henning Schulzrinne
• How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM
  - by Craig Partridge
• How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
  - by Roy Levin and David D. Redell
• How to Write an Abstract
  - by Philip Koopman
• Academic Writing @ UT
• Leone's Page @ CMU
• LaTeX Maths & Cambridge & UCLA & Gilles Bertrand

Research Talk

• Talk Hints
  - by Henning Schulzrinne
• The Short Talk
  - by Charles Van Loan
• Giving an Academic Talk
  - by Jonathan Shewchuk
• Giving a Technical Presentation
  - by Michael Ernst
• Giving Good Talk
  - by Simon Peyton-Jones

Venues

• Top Journals based on citation - by IEEE
• ACM Conference Portfolio
• Conference Portfolio with classification - by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)

Hacking

Advice

• "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", by Peter Norvig, Research Director Google Inc.
  - a MUST read if you seriously consider this path
• Coding Conventions
  - by Henning Schulzrinne
• Eric S. Raymond
  - UNIX hacker
• How to be a Programmer
  - by Robert L. Read
• Language Tips
  - by Glen McCluskey
• Craftsmanship
  - by Joel Spolsky
• Programming Paradigms
  - from Stanford

Video Streaming Tools (free)

• x264 - a free h264/avc encoder
• MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool (Windows only)
• VLC Video Streamer
• GStreamer

Tools and Guide for Linux and Wireless Networking

• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
• Traffic Control HOWTO
  - by Martin A. Brown
• A Practical Guide to Linux Traffic Control
  - by Jason Boxman
• Differentiated Service on Linux HOWTO
  - by Leonardo Balliache
• Linux Firewalls via iptables
• The Linux Documentation Project
• Open Group Specification
• Beej's Guides
• LXR Linux Cross Reference
• GNU C Library
• BlueZ Stack
• Bluetooth Programming & Examples
  - by Albert Huang
• Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
  - by David Tse and Pramod Viswanath
• WiFi Tools
  - by Jean Tourrilhes

Career

General

• Getting an Academic Job
• Professional Skills for PhD
• Paul Graham Essays
• Technology and Courage by Ivan Sutherland
• You and Your Research from Richard Hamming
  - Master piece, period

All about Jobs

• The Job Talk
  - by Jeff Phillips
• Perfecting The Job Talk
  - by John Eadie
• Academic Scientists at Work: The Job Talk
  - by Jeremy M. Boss and Susan H. Eckert
• The Academic Job Search Process
• Interviewing
• Academic Job Interviews
  - from Carleton College
• Questions & Tips
• MOL @ Finland
  - postings

Resources

• Organizing & Travel hints
  - by Henning Schulzrinne
• Poliisi for Licence and Permit
• What's On @ Helsinki
• Central Park

Miscellaneous

• Ponder This @ IBM Research - try challenging your mind
• Football Strategy - fun to watch, by an algorithm teacher
• '05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein - amazing review, from Peter Norvig
• Special Zone - personal homepage
• Travel Traces - part of my journey
• OCW @ MIT
• Coursera
• TopCoder
• Hacker News @ Y-Combinator
• The Busy Trap - the most read on web in 2012 from nytimes
• The best stats you've ever seen by Hans Rosling
• Why we are happy by Dan Gilbert
• Publish Your Art

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