Christensen Links Page Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research

• NSF NeTS FIND Initiative - The NSF Future Internet Design initiative
• Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers for Promotion and Tenure - A CRA "Best Practices" memo that describes what is CS research

• Teaching, It's a Simple Game - a teaching philosophy by John D. Arras (UVA)
• Teachers and Students: Let's Make a Deal - a teaching philosophy by Phillip J. Stiles (NCSU)
• Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding - A short film about teaching at the university level ("teaching 101")
• 2 Million Minutes - A documentary on global education

• Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel - Absolutely the best book on how to write (and do research) specifically for Computer Science
• How to write a great research paper - Advice from Simon Jones
• Writing Systems and Networking Articles - Advice from Henning Schulzerinne
• How to write a paper - Advice from Oded Goldreich
• Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper - Advice from George Whitesides
• How to write a thesis statement - At the start is always a thesis statement
• Dissertation advice - Advice from Olin Shivers
• IEEE Computer Society style guide - IEEE-CS style guide for conference and journal papers

• Creating Effective Poster Presentations :: An Effective Poster - A super poster resource at NCSU
• Tosney homepage on creating posters - Excellent advice from Kathryn W. Tosney
• Poster presentation - Great resource on creating posters from Gary Ritchison at EKU
• Do's and Don'ts of Poster Presentation - From Biophysical journal (a little dated)

• Ph.D. Proposal Writing - Notes on preparing a Ph.D. (or project) proposal by Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Rochester)
• Hints on preparing a grant proposal - Hints for proposal preparation from an AAS panel

• Statementofpurpose.com - An entire website dedicated to writing the statement of purpose
• Writing a winning statement of purpose - Advice from Glenn Callaghan
• A graduate school survival guide - Thoughts from Ronald Azuma (UNC Computer Science)
• How to Have Bad Career as a Grad Student by Christos Kozyrakis - A take-off on Patterson's famous talk (linked below)
• Advice for computer science college students - Advice from Joel Spolsky
• Advice on CS Graduate School from recent Williams College graduates - Some excellent advice from multiple students
• Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School - Some great advice from Phil Agre

• The Academic Job Search Handbook by Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick - The best book there is for the academic job seeker
• Landing an academic job - The process and the pitfalls - Advice from Jonathan Dantzig
• How to get a teaching job at a primarily undergraduate institution - Advice from Malcolm Campbell

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition by Fred Brooks - A timeless book on large-scale software development
• Christensen C Programming Style Guidelines - Style guidelines for my students to follow
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming - Sockets programming guide

• CS Topic Generator - Automated generation of thesis topic and literature review from Douglas Comer
• How to have a bad career in research/academia - Humorous advice from David Patterson
• Piled Higher and Deeper - Comics about the graduate school experience
• XKCD - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - A very cerebral comic strip
• Two parables for graduate students - The importance of a good advisor
• Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen - Computer-related cartoons
• Fastrack - More computer-related cartoons
• Life after Death by Powerpoint - Some useful hints for Powerpoint (YouTube)
• Engineer versus Computer Scientist - Which one are you?
• What the professor really means - Making fun of professor-speak
• Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales - A humorous music video (YouTube)

• Make the Future - A Career in Computer Science - A "Computer Science is cool" video from Microsoft (YouTube)
• NC State Engineering promotional video - An outstanding video for NCSU Engineering ("unmatched work ethic")