Advice

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
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
  - 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
  - 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