Collections

Recommended CS Courses

• MIT Missing Semester [link]

Advice

Research and Career

• Edsger W. Dijkstra. The three golden rules for successful scientific research [link]
• Srinivasan Keshav. How to read a paper [link]
• Michael Mitzenmacher and Norman Ramsey. How to read a research paper [link]
• Timothy Roscoe. Writing reviews for systems conferences [link]
• Nick Feamster. Cultivating your research taste [link]
• John Ousterhout. Collection of favorite sayings [link]
• Srinivasan Keshav. Hints on doing research [link]
• David A. Patterson. How to have a bad career in research/academia [link]

Systems & Networking

• Butler W. Lampson. Hints for computer systems design [link]
• Richard P. Gabriel. The rise of worse is better [link]
• Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, David Clark. End-to-end arguments in system design [link]
• Gernot Heiser. Systems benchmarking crimes [link]
• Jerry Saltzer. Computer system design principles [link]
• Jeff Hodges. Notes on distributed systems for young bloods [link]
• ACM SIGPLAN. Empirical evaluation guidelines [link]
• Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall. A note on distributed computing [link]

Writing Tips

• George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan. The science of scientific writing [link]
• William Strunk Jr and E. B. White. The element of style [link]
• Roy Levin and David D. Redell. How (and how not) to write a good systems paper [link]
• Gernot Heiser. Tips and guidance for students writing papers and reports [link]
• Eddie Kohler. Latex usage notes [link]
• Markus Püschel. Small Guides to Making Nice Tables [link]

Misc

• VU literature study report template [link]

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Reading List for In-Network Computing