====== Research & Career Advice ======


===== Graduate Advice Day Presentations =====

==== Research in Industrial Labs vs. Academia ====

  * Title: Research in Academia vs. Industry
  * Speaker(s): TACC?  IBM Austin Lab, MSR
  * Date: 28 Oct 2011
  * [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gracs/events/GAD-ResearchinIndustrialvsAcademia.m4v|recording]]

==== Writing Papers ====

  * Title: Writing Papers
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Mike Dahlin, UTCS
  * Date: 25 Mar 2011
  * [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gracs/events/GAD_25Mar.mov|recording]] (video only, no audio)

==== Interviewing ====

  * Title: Job and internship interview questions to ask and expect
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kathryn S McKinley, UTCS
  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-kathryn.ppt?linkonly}}

==== Academic Job Hunt ====

  * Title: Finding an Academic Position
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kathryn S McKinley, UTCS
  * Date: 29 Apr 2011
  * [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gracs/events/GAD_29Apr.mov|recording]]

==== Networking ====

  * Title: Networking
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Adam Klivans, UTCS
  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-klivans.ppt?linkonly}}

==== Corporate Research Career Choice ====

  * Title: Looking back, peering ahead
  * Speaker(s): Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research (UT PhD 2008)
  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-rama.pptx?linkonly}}

==== Giving Talks ====

  * Title: I Speak Pretty Now, 
or, 
How to Give a Bad Talk
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kristen Grauman, UTCS
  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-kristen.ppt?linkonly}}

==== Interdisciplinary Research ====

  * Title: Interdisciplinary research
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Luay Nakhleh, Rice University (UT PhD 2004) 
  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-luay.pdf?linkonly}}

==== Writing ====

  * Title: On writing well
  * Speaker(s): Prof. William R. Cook, UTCS
  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-cook.pdf?linkonly}}

==== UTCS Graduate Advice Day 2007 ====

 {{:gad:gad-all-2007.ppt?linkonly}} - UTCS Graduate Advice Day Slides, Feb 23, 2007
  * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
  * Communication Skills, Adam Klivans
  * Panel: What Will I Do When I Graduate? (Praveen Yalagandula, HP; Dave Moriarty, Apple; Seth Pettie, University of Michigan -- all UT PhD grads)
  * Managing Your Advisor, Keshav Pingali
  * Panel: Tools and Advice for AI, Systems, & Theory Research (Ned Dimitrov, Mike Bond, Shimon Whiteson -- all UT PhD students)
  * Advice on Applying and Interviewing for Jobs, Steve Keckler
  * Panel: Work-Life Balance (Adam Brown, PhD student; Emmett Witchell, assistant prof; Kathryn McKinley, prof)


===== Career Advice =====

Links to a variety of professional development materials.  Originally collected & edited by Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, and Risto Mikkulainen, among others.

 [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/bookshelf/hamming.html|Advice on Research]], Dr. R.W. Hamming

 [[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/research.pdf|How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia]], David Patterson

 [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/research.html|Pithy advice for researchers]], Mike Dahlin

 [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mckinley/talks/CRA-GSMentor-2005.ppt|Pithy advice for graduate school]], Rachel Pottinger & Kathryn McKinley (June 2005)

 [[http://swig.stanford.edu/~fox/wisdom.html|Accreted wisdom related to computer science]], Armando Fox

===== Big thoughts =====

 [[http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush|As We May Think]], Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly (July 1945)

 [[http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html|There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom]], Richard Feynman


===== Writing Papers and Giving Talks =====

 [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/professional/badTalk.pdf|How to give a bad talk]], Mike Dahlin

 [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/professional/goodTalk.pdf|How to give a good talk]], Mike Dahlin

 [[http://www.computer.org/tpds/taskofreferee.html|The Task of the Referee]] Alan Jay Smith

 [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/professional/paper-writing.pdf|Hints on writing technical papers]], Armando Fox

 [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321112520/102-1396063-2485706?v=glance&n=283155|Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace]], Joseph M. Williams

 [[http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=020530902X|The Elements of Style]], Strunk and White


===== Other Wikis =====

 [[http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/twiki/bin/view/NNWiki/WebHome|The Neural Networks research page]] is a useful and thorough collection of UTCS info, including lots of advice about classes, working on a dissertation, etc. Especially interesting are the sections about "General Research Tools" information, including guides for LaTeX, LyX, CVS, SSH, and system security. [Accessible from UT network only]

===== Women in Computing =====

 [[http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/pubs.php/|CRA (Computing Research Association)]], Graduate Student Information guide, and lots of other great career advice