Recommendations for Ph.D. students
Note: I recommend to read all the documents in this page. More documents can be found in the "Other Sources of Documents" section. Do not hesitate to recommend documents to be added to this page.
What is a Ph.D. Thesis
The most basic question every
Ph.D. student must know the answer to is: "Why the hell am I
doing this?"
[...]
If you do not have an acceptable
answer to this question, then don't get a Ph.D. I repeat: if
you do not have a rock-solid reason for getting the Ph.D.,
then it is better that you leave with a Master's.
"You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming
This talk from Richard Hamming is about the difference between good researchers and researchers that do first-class work. Here is a link to the PDF
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia
This talk from Professor David A. Patterson is a must read. Here is a link to the PDF, the PowerPoint with some animations (that you should not use), and the original web page
General Writing Advices
Scientific Writing
Scientific writing is an art. It is the art to make clear to the largest audience the most complex ideas. It is hard, it is counter intuitive, it must be learned. Two excellent references are:
General Presentation Advices
How to Read and Review a Paper
ACM SIGCOMM Related Reading
Other Sources of Documents
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