How to Do Research

This page is a collection of pointers of interest that I collected during the last years.

Marie desJardins, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

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, September 1986 (revised July 1989).

William Pugh, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts

Tony Roberts, Department of Mathematics & Computing, University of Southern Queensland,Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia

Write Right for Research

Additional Refererences

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.

How to Presesent a 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.

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",

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.

Additional Hints

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.

ia@lsi.upc.es