CS 4960
Research Topic, Writing and Public Speaking
Information
(Borrowed liberally from Dr. Megan Thomas's CS 4960 course
description, with permission.)
- Finding
good research papers
- Communications of
the ACM
- Dr. Sarraille's list of
links for CS 4960 students
- ACM Queue
- AAAI.org has
a digital library of artificial intelligence (AI) papers.
- ACM Digital
Library is one of the best places to find reputable papers
on computing research topics. On campus, all the papers are downloadable.
If off-campus, you may need to access it via the CSUS Library web site and
enter your student password.
- Usenix, and the conferences organized by Usenix,
have a good reputation in the systems, networking and security areas. If
your topic fits somewhere in there, you might check their conferences for
material.
- Citeseer is a scientific
technical research paper search engine -- not a good place to look for
ideas, but perhaps a place to find relevant papers after you have selected
your topic.
- IEEE
Computer and IEEE Spectrum
- Google Research - papers published by researchers
working for Google Research. (If you can find a similar list of research
papers by computer science researchers working for Microsoft Research or a
similar research organization, please let me know about it.)
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- Writing-related
advice
- Examples of paper outlines, courtesy of
Austin Community College
- "Writing a Paper: Outlining",
instructions on creating a good paper outline, courtesy of Walden
University
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- Public
speaking advice
- IASTED's Presentation Tips
- J. Gallian's advice on
public speaking for technical speakers, and on PowerPoint slides
- The
Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation. (Norvig comments entertainingly on how he made the
Gettysburg presentation and some responses to it here.)
- E. Tufte makes a
persuasive argument that PowerPoint impedes the flow of
information so much that it may have contributed to the Columbia accident.