Miscellaneous

Useful advice from big names

On research methodologies

• The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research (by Prof. E.W. Dijkstra) (Link)
• You and Your Research (Prof. Richard Hamming) (Link)
• Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students (by Prof. Stephen C. Stearns) (Link)
• How to give a technical presentation (how to give a scientific talk) (by Prof. Michael Ernst) (Link)

On writing

• The Most Common Habits from more than 200 English Papers written by Graduate Chinese Engineering Students. (Link)
• Why I gave your paper a Strong Accept/ Why I gave your paper a Strong Reject (by Dr. Matt Welsh) (Link)/(Link)
• How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper (by Dr. Roy Levin and David D. Redell) (Link)

Useful tools for researchers

• Conference Tracker
  • Website
• JCR Impact Factor Query
  • Website
• Networking Conferences Statistics
  • Website

Useful tutorials for CS students (especially on system research)

• A book reading list for CS students by Yanyan Jiang from Nanjing University.
  • Website
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education from MIT.
  • This lecture series teaches you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more.
  • Website, Simplified Chinese Version, Lecture Video on Bilibili, and Lecture Video on Youtube.
• Basic operations and tools of systems research from IPADS, SJTU.
  • Video on Bilibili