Reading Materials for Students:

- General Information

• Joe Hellerstein's Year 2002 commencement address to CS graduates (.pdf)
• Marie desJardins's advice on how to succeed in graduate school (.ps)

- Research Skills

• How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
• Duane Bailey's letter to research students (.pdf)
• André DeHon's advice for students starting into research work
• Hal Varian's How to build a model (.pdf)

- Writing and Presentation Skills

• Strunk and White, Elements of Style.(or local pdf) (A must read!!)
• John Lee, "Writing Technical Papers"
• Victor O. K. Li, "Hints on Writing Technical Papers and Making Presentations"
• Roy Levin and David Redell's Evaluation questions on systems papers (.ps)
• Henning Schulzrinne's Writing Technical Articles
• Simon Peyton-Jones's How to give a good research talk
• Mark Hill's Advice on talks