How to Do Research

Marie desJardins, SRI International Menlo Park, CA, USA
John W. Chinneck, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- How to Organize your Thesis
David Chapman, MIT, AI Lab, USA
- How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab , AI Working Paper 316, October, 1988
Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe, and Gordon Plotkin
- The Researchers' Bible , Technical Report DAI Teaching Paper No. 4, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh,: February 17, 1995 (revised September 1986 and July 1989).
  latest version including contributions by Graeme Ritchie and Peter Ross; 9 November 2004
- Alan Bundy's "How to Guides"
E. Robert Schulman and C. Virginia Cox, Charlottesville, Virginia

*!* Scott Berkun, How to Get the Most out of Conferences
Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton. How To Have Your Abstract Rejected .
Salvatore T. March. Editorial Policy, ACM Computing Surveys, 23(2):133-141, June 1991.
Dupré, Lyn. BUGS in Writing : a Guide to Debugging Your Prose, Reading, Mass. [u.a.]: Addison-Wesley, 2dn ed., 1998.
Eco, Umberto. Wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlußarbeit schreibt: Doktor-, Diplom- und Magisterarbeit in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften - Heidelberg:Müller, 6., Aufl. d. dt. Ausg., 1993. ISBN 3825215121, Rezension
Aktuell in den Medien:
Standardartikel zu Evaluation von Forschung vom 9.Apr.2002

How to Write a Scientific Paper

Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury , Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- *!* Slides: How to write a great research paper
Werner Horn, Institut für Medizinische Kybernetik und Artificial Intelligence, Universität Wien, Austria
- Wie schreibe ich eine Wissenschaftliche Arbeit?
M. Anton Ertl, Institut für Computersprachen, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- Aufbau wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Karl M. Göschka, Institut für Computertechnik, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- Merkblatt für den Aufbau wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten
Roy Levin and David Redell, Institut für Computertechnik, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
William Pugh, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Tony Roberts, Department of Mathematics & Computing, University of Southern Queensland,Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia

Ian Parberry, Department of Computer Sciences, University of North Texas, USA
- How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students ,
Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury , Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- How to Give a Good Research Talk , SIGPLAN Notices 28(11):9-12, November 1993.
- *!* Slides: How to write a great research paper
- *!* Slides: How to give a great research talk
Manfred Hauswirth, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- Präsentationstechnik : Tips und Tricks für Präsentationen.
Werner Purgathofer, Institut für Computergraphik, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- On Talks and Slides: A set of guidelines for giving a talk and preparing transparencies.
Jeffry Veen
- Seven Steps to Better Presentations
S. Katzoff
- Clarity in Technical Reporting , NASA SP-7010 , January 1964

Presentation Tips (Top Ten Slide Tips, Organization & Preparation Tips, Delivery Tips, ...
- garrreynold.com
Additional Hints
- PowerPoint For Techies: How much is too much?
- William Germano, The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver, The Chronicle Review, 2003
- Tips&Tricks by www.presentations.com
- How to make presentations: techniques, handouts, display technologies, Tips&Tricks by Edward Tufte (discussion at www.edwardtufte.com)

Marie desJardins, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
- Tips on Organizing Workshops and Symposia

IEEE "Conference Organizer Tools", (vom Workshop bis zur Riesenkonferenz)
- Technical Meeting Handbook
- Misc

Alan Jay Smith
- The Task of the Referee. IEEE Computer 23( 4), April, pp. 65-71, 1990.
Ian Parberry, Department of Computer Sciences, University of North Texas, USA
- A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science, Information and Computation, 112(1):96-116, July 1994.
Donald E. Knuth
- Hints for Referees
Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee and Paul M. Roberts.
- Mathematical Writing, (see particularly pages 31 through 35)

The World University Rankings, The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 28, 2005
- The world's top 100 technology universities (selected from The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 28, 2005)

The Annals of Improbable Research
Dave Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
Some Advice for Getting Through Graduate School by Barbara Durham (some good links under the heading "writing" )
The ACM Computing Classification System (ACM CCS)
- 1998 Version, Valid in 2001
- How to Classify Works Using ACM's Computing Classification System
Institute for Scientific Information, Science Citation Index
Networking on the Network by Phil Agre, a guide to "networking" using the Internet. A great resource, and a great read.
A mailing list that may be of interest to female graduate students is the systers-students mailing list.
Bastard Assistant from Hell , Eine Sammlung bitterböser Geschichten von Florian Schiel

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