TIPS: How to Do Research

link: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/

 

How to Do Research

• Marie desJardins , SRI International Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • How to Succeed in Graduate School
  • How to Succeed  in Postgraduate Study
  • How to Be a Good Graduate Student / Advisor
• 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 How to Write a Ph.D. Dissertation, Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 3, No. 5, pg. 8.

• Toby Walsh , University of York, UK
  • Empirical Methods in CS and AI
• Joe Wolfe , The University of New South Wales, Sydney How to Write a PhD Thesis
  

Additional Refererences

• *!*    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 Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts , SIGPLAN '91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 353-356, 1991.

Tony Roberts , Department of Mathematics & Computing, University of Southern Queensland,Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia Write Right for Research
---> First and last, or the rule of three

• E. Robert Schulman , Charlottesville, Virginia   How To Write A Scientific Paper, Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 2, No. 5, pg. 8.

How to Present a Scientific Paper

• 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 ,
    • first appeared in SIGACT News, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 42-47, 1988. It was reviewed briefly in the SIG News section of the Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 1, p. 146, 1989, and was reprinted in Bulletin of the EATCS, No. 37, pp. 344-349, 1989, and The Bit Dropper, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 6-11, 1989.
• 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)

How to Design a Poster

• "Extensive, imaginative use of captioned illustrations, photographs, graphs or other types of visually appealing material is the point of  a poster presentation. Please do not simply mount the text of your paper as a "poster." It will not be effective in this  medium ." (http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/poster.htm )
• Thesis Summary != Poster
• Guidelines / Tipps to Design Postern:
  http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/index.html
  http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
  http://www.biology.lsa.umich.edu/research/labs/ktosney/file/PosterHome.html
  
  
• PostersHome.html
  http://student.dcu.ie/~mcmahon4/posteradvice.html
  http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/IndexStart.html
  http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/ltci/TGuides/epd/index.html
  http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/posters.html
  http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/Dept/Tips/present/posters.htm
  http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/posters.html
  http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/poster.htm
  http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/GradProf/glas.htm
  http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00017C&topic_id=1
  
  
• Examples of Posters
  http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/posters.html
  http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/examples/
  http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/research/vt/postertips.html

Tips on Organizing Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia

• 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

How to Review

• 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)

Digitial Libaries

• CiteSeer.IST
• Research Index
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Computer Science Library Universität Trier (dblp)
• Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library
• Human-Computer Interaction Resources

• ACM
• IEEE - (IEL-Electronic Library)

• aleph : Online-Kataloge des Österreichischen Bibliothekenverbundes
• Elektronische Zeitschriften an der UBTU-Wien

Tips for Writing Correct English

• Common Errors in English
• William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style

University Ranking

• 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)

 

Additional Hints

• 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