• 9:00am We want you to succeed! J Strother Moore
• 9:15am Job and internship interview questions to ask and expect, Kathryn S McKinley
• 9:45am Practicum: Practice interviewing with your peers.

10:15am Break 10:30am Panel led discussion: What I wish I had done in graduate school and the best thing I did do, Mike Walfish & Brent Waters 11:30am Networking, Adam Klivans 12:00pm Lunch Practicum: Give an elevator talk. Come prepared to describe your research to a student outside your research area. 1:00am Looking back, peering ahead, Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research (UT PhD 2008) 1:30pm Practicum: Curriculum vitae swap. Bring your CV. You will exchange with a student outside your research area. 2:00pm I speak pretty now, Kristen Grauman 2:30pm Break 3:00pm Interdisciplinary research, Luay Nakhleh, Assistant Professor, Rice University (UT PhD 2004) 3:30pm On writing well, William Cook 4:00pm Practicum: writing swap. Bring a one to two page writing sample, such as the abstract and introduction of a work in progress, your research statement, or a paper critique. You will exchange with a student outside your research area. 4:45pm Evaluation: Fill out web evaluation form.

gad-all-2007.ppt - 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)

UTCS Graduate Student Advice Day Slides, May 11, 2006

• Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
• Starting a research career & picking an advisor, Emery Berger, Assistant Prof at UMass (UT graduate)
• What your advisor can do for you & managing your advisor, Doug Burger, Associate Professor
• Communication skills - I speek pretty now, Mike Dahlin, Associate Professor
• Networking, Pete Manolios, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (UT graduate)
• What it takes to land academic interviews & how to create it, - Kathryn McKinley, Professor
• Preparing for an academic interview, Karu Sankaralingam, Graduate Student
• What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, Long Huang, Graduate Student
• What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, JP Martin, Graduate Student

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

Advice on Research, Dr. R.W. Hamming

How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia, David Patterson

Pithy advice for researchers, Mike Dahlin

Pithy advice for graduate school, Rachel Pottinger & Kathryn McKinley (June 2005)

Accreted wisdom related to computer science, Armando Fox

As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly (July 1945)

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Richard Feynman

How to give a bad talk, Mike Dahlin

How to give a good talk, Mike Dahlin

The Task of the Referee Alan Jay Smith

Hints on writing technical papers, Armando Fox

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, Joseph M. Williams

The Elements of Style, Strunk and White

Pending

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

CRA (Computing Research Association), Graduate Student Information guide, and lots of other great career advice