Tips on Doing Research

• David Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia, or refer to the URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/nontech.html
• R. W. Hamming, A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do

Tips on Paper Reading and Writing

• Maja J. Mataric, How to Review Papers
• Nitin Vaidya, How to Read, Write, and Present Papers
• Craig Patridge, How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM
• Roy Levin and David D. Redell, An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, or, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
• Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Miscellaneous Tips for Writing and Formatting
• Douglas E. Comer, How To Write A Dissertation or Bedtime Reading For People Who Do Not Have Time To Sleep
• Henning Schulzrinne, Common Bugs in Writing

Tips on Presentation

• John Farrell, What to Say in a Good Research Talk
• Charles Van Loan, The Short Talk
• Simon Peyton Jones, John Launchbury, John Hughes, How to give a good research talk
• Doc Searls, It's the story, stupid: don't let presentation software keep you from getting your story across

Some Useful Links for General Advices to Graduate Students

• Advices for students starting into research work from CalTech
• Advices on research and writing from CMU
• Graduate school advices from Berkeley

Some Useful Links on Conferences and Societies

• Tim Moors, Networking Conference Dates
• Kevin Almeroth, Conference Statistics
• Alex Slingerland, CFPs on wireless and mobile network control
• CiteSeer: A Research Document Index and Citation Service by NEC
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Communication Society
• ACM SIGCOMM
• ACM SIGMOBILE
• ACM SIGMETRICS
• ACM SIGBED
• The Technical Committee on Computer Communications

Some Useful Books and Articles You Want to Read Earlier

• Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Phil Agre, Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students
• Peter J. Feibelman , A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science
• Strunk and White, Elements of Style
• Richard M. Reis, Tomorrow's Professor