Christensen Links Page Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research

• Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers for Promotion and Tenure - A CRA "Best Practices" memo that describes what is CS research
• How to Read a Paper - A paper on how to read academic papers from Keshav

• Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement - A guide from Iowa State University Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
• How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy - Advice from the Chronicle
• Ten Commandments for Teaching - A teaching philosophy from Yale Patt (UT-Austin)
• Teaching, It's a Simple Game - A teaching philosophy from John D. Arras (UVA)
• Teachers and Students: Let's Make a Deal - A teaching philosophy from Phillip J. Stiles (NCSU)
• Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding - A short film about teaching at the university level endorsed by Microsoft at SIGCSE 2006
• 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
• How to write the Introduction to a paper - From Rod Sherwood's homepage (University of Maryland)
• 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
• How to write a dissertation - From Douglas Comer's website
• IEEE Computer Society style guide - IEEE-CS style guide for conference and journal papers
• A Guide to Writing Mathematics by Kevin P. Lee - A good started on how to write with mathematics

• How to give a good research talk - Advice from Simon Jones

• 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)

• NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Tips - Collection of advice edited by ZJ Pei
• 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
• How to write a good research proposal - Advice from Simon Jones
• Advice page on writing a research proposal - Advice from Simon Jones and Alan Bundy

• 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 Succeed In Graduate School - Thoughts from Rod Sherwood (University of Maryland, 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
• How to Grade a Dissertation - Thoughts on evaluating a dissertation from Barbara Lovitts

• 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
• How to have a bad career in research/academia - Advice from David Patterson

• 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

• Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David MacKay - The book on sustainable energy and what it will take
• How Many Light Bulbs - David MacKay on visualizing personal energy use with light bulbs (YouTube video)

• CS Topic Generator - Automated generation of thesis topic and literature review from Douglas Comer's website
• How to write a PhD dissertation - From the Annals of Improbable Research
• 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
• The classic project management cartoon - What the customer ordered, etc.
• Engineer versus Computer Scientist - Which one are you?
• What the professor really means - Making fun of professor-speak
• Life after Death by Powerpoint - Some useful hints for Powerpoint presentations (YouTube)
• 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
• Garfield's "Rules for Living" - Inspiring rules for living from President Garfield
• Valerie Ashby commencement speech - Service is response to privilege of education