Useful Links

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Guidelines on Research Paper Reading

• A. J. Smith, The Task of the Referee,  IEEE Computer, Volume 23, Issue 4, April 1990.
• P. J. Denning, Reading Practice, CS471 GMU, 1998.

Accessing Digital Libraries

• Engineering & Technology section of GMU digital library.
• Using your G# to access digital library from off-campus.

Related Recent Conferences

• ACM SIGPLAN: PLDI'04, PLDI'05, PLDI'06.
• ACM SIGARCH, SIGPLAN, SIGOS: ASPLOS'04, ASPLOS'06.
• IEEE & SIGARCH: PACT'04, PACT'05, PACT'06.
• ACM SIGMETRICS'04, SIGMETRICS'05, SIGMETRICS'06.
• IEEE & ACM: MICRO'04, MICRO'05, MICRO'06.
• ACM ISCA'04, ISCA'05, ISCA'06.
• Estimated impact of publication venues in CS: CiteSeer.

General Guidelines for Research & Graduate Life

• R. W. Hamming, You and Your Research.
• R. T. Azuma,  "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!" a.k.a. "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later." .
• M. desJardins, How to Succeed in Graduate School.
• R. Levin and D. D. Redell, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper (USENIX).