How to do Good Research?

• Career path
  • John Backus. On Being a Researcher.
  • Gregory Bateson. Advice to a Young Scientist
  • Freeman Dyson. Disturbing the Universe
  • Richard Feynmann. Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynmann
  • George Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology
  • Jim Watson. The Double Helix.
  • How to have a good career in computer science
  • Erik Riedel. Life after grad school - heaven or hell?
• Time management and balance
  • Time management for new faculty
  • Time management
  • Book: Alan Lakien. How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life. (Recommended even by people who hate self-help books)
• Research methodology
  • Richard Hamming. You and Your Research (Highly recommend!!!)
  • The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research
  • Tips for successful research
  • Eamonn Keogh. How to do good research, get it published in SIGKDD and get it cited! (Many good tips)
• Notebooks
• Reading
  • DB reading list
  • AI reading list
• Writing
  • Lyn Dupre. BUGS in writing : a guide to debugging your prose. (summary)
  • Strunk and White's Elements of Style gives the basic dos and don'ts.
  • Claire Cook's The MLA's Line By Line (Houghton Mifflin) is about editing at the sentence level.
  • Jacques Barzun's Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers (Harper and Row, 1985) is about composition.
  • Essay writing center
• Talk
  • How to give a talk by Patrick Winston
  • How to give a good talk
  • How to give a tutorial
• Demo
  • Mary Fernandaz. Tips on giving a good demo. (A lot of good advice on demo in research conferences)
  • How to be a demo God
  • Learn to demo
• Programming
  • How to write unmaintainable code
  • Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch (Summary)
• Social
• Emotional Factor
• Graduate School
  • Survival guides
    • Online PhD Guides
    • How to be a good graduate student/advisor
    • How To Do Research In the MIT AI Lab
    • Stanford graduate school survival guides
    • So long, and thanks for the PhD!
    • Graduate student resources on the web
    • Advice on research and writing
    • Berkeley Career Services: PhDs & Postdocs.
    • Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. by Robert L. Peters, ISBN 0374524777.
    • phds.org
  • For advisees
  • For advisors
    • Ingredients to a Good Advisor by Joseph Francisco, Monica Martinez-Aviles, Claudette Rosado-Reyes
    • Characteristics of a good advisor
  • Dissertation
    • Final Year Project
    • How to Write a PhD Thesis
    • Seven Steps to Writing a Dissertation
    • Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation
    • How to Write a Dissertation
    • How to Grade a Dissertation, by Barbara E. Lovitts
• Academy
  • Journal: ACADEME
  • Survival in the academy
  • Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. By Reis
  • The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career. By Goldsmith, Komlos and gold.
  • Computing Research Association
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • UW Self Study for 10-year review
• Industry Research
  • John Wilkes's talk "Is work hell? Life in industrial research"
• Job Hunting
  • Collections of advice
    • Collections from universities
      • UW CSE collection of advice on finding jobs
      • UIUC CS: How to Find Jobs
      • UCBerkeley Career Center
      • Stanford Career Development Center
      • U Chicago Career and Advising Services
      • UPenn Career Services
      • Job Search Details from Caltech
    • Collections from individuals
      • Applying for Jobs in Academia, by Luis Gravano
      • Job Hunting Resources, by Rachael Pottinger
      • Job Hunting Advice, by Tao Xie
      • Computer Science Faculty Job Search Resources, by Stephanie Weirich
  • Academic Job
    • The Academic Job Search Handbook. By Heiberger and Vick.
    • Job search in academe: strategic rhetorics for faculty job candidates. By Formo and Reed.
    • Interviewing during a tight job market, by Qiong Luo and Zack Ives
    • On the academic interview circuit: an end-to-end discussion, by Ugur Cetintemel
    • Getting an academic job, by Michael Ernst
    • Landing an academic job: the process and the pitfalls, by Dantzig (View from the interviewers)
    • Tips for a Massive Academic Job Search (Many tips for women)
    • Interviewing for research & teaching appointments
    • Academic Job Resources Checklist
    • Two-body job searches, by Marianne Winslett, Xiaosong Ma and Ting Yu
    • Dragomir Radev's page of useful resources for graduating students
  • Industry Lab
    • Questions to ask during an interview
• Other resources
  • Advice for Research, Communication, and Job Hunt

How to be Highly Effective People?

• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Summary 1, 2, 3; How to build the habits) (Highly recommend!!!)
• Life is a Long and Continuous Process of Accumulation (Highly recommend!!!)
• The Angel Inside: Michelangelo's Secrets For Following Your Passion and Finding the Work You Love (Summary) (Recommend)
• Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (Very touching and inspiring!!!)
• Learn to select and learn to give up
• Teaching children to think positively
• Stories for growth
• Essential skills for your excellent career
• 日常生活中18个有用的人情世故

How to Lead a Happy Life?

• Do you see the beauty
• 25 ways to happiness
• 50 happy things in life
• Happy Life
• My Life's Little Secrets
• Nine ways to find peace of mind
• 永远不要看不起别人或自己。觉得自己比别人好的时候，保持一颗谦虚感恩的心。觉得自己比别人差的时候，保持一颗平和乐观的心。不和别人比，是明智的生活方式。