Getting Started

1. How do I become a professor/scientist/researcher?
2. What is Computing Research anyway?
   
3. In what area of Computer Science is this group doing research on?
4. What background information do I need to research in this area?
   
5. How do I choose a research topic to focus on 1?
6. How do I choose a research topic to focus on 2?
7. Where do I look for more information about my research topic/question?
8. There are so many papers! How do I keep track of them?
   
9. How do I read and evaluate a research paper?
10. How do I actually "do" research?What steps do I take and skills do I need?
11. I am not good in English writing. How do I improve?
12. How do I write up my research? (SciWrite)
    
13. I submitted a paper to a conference/journal. Will it get accepted?
    
14. How do I talk about my research?
    
15. Is there a code of ethics in research?

Interesting Links

• Science Teaching Reconsidered
• ISI Journals List in Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Student's Guide to the Special Problem
• Research Bible
  
• On Doing Research
  
• NSF Awarded Research in Computer Systems (Abstracts)
• NSF: Computer and Network Systems
  
• Start Research in Computer Networks
• Advanced Topics in Computer Systems, UC Berkeley
• How to be a Computer Systems Graduate Student
• The structure of paper/report in Systems
  
• Writing a Research Plan
• Writing Systems and Networking Articles
• Collection of Advice for Faculty and Grad Students
• Zotero
• Guide for Undergraduate Research
• Nature's guide for mentors
• Becoming a Successful Principal Investigator
• Ten Simple Rules for Organizing a Scientific Meeting
• PHD Grind
• Publishing a Master's Thesis
• Research Methods Videos
• Introductory Readings for Systems Research
  

Associations/Conferences/Journals

• USENIX
• Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
• SIGCOMM
• Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
  
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems
• ACM Transactions of Embedded Computing Systems
  
• ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security
• ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks
• ACM Transactions on Networking
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems
• ACM Transactions on the Web
  
• IEEE Computing Now
• IEEE Internet Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
  
• Ad Hoc Networks
• Card Technology Today
• Computer Communications
• Computer Fraud and Security
• Journal of Systems Architecture
• Microprocessors and Microsystems
• Network Security
• Parallel Computing
• Cluster Computing (SpringerLink)
• Distributed Computing (SpringerLink)
• Journal of Network and Systems Management (SpringerLink)
• Wireless Networks (SpringerLink)
• Mobile Networks and Applications (SpringerLink)
• Distributed and Parallel Databases (SpringerLink)
• International Journal of Parallel Programming (SpringerLink)
• Journal of Grid Computing (SpringerLink)
• The Journal of Supercomputing (SpringerLink)
• The Very Large Scale Databases Journal (SpringerLink)
• Computing Research Repository: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
• Computing Research Repository: Networking and Internet Architecture
• Computing Research Repository: Operating Systems
  
• Linux Journal
• List of Conferences and Journals
• Computers and Security
• International Journal of Information Security
  

Tools

• NS-2
  
• EMULAB
• PLANET-LAB
• OMNet++
  

Other Systems Research Groups

• http://www.systems.ethz.ch/
• http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/
• http://gregorio.stanford.edu/
• http://cns.ucsd.edu/
• http://csng.cs.toronto.edu/index.php
• http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~compunet/www/view/group.php?id=compunet
• http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/
• http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/groups/sysnet/
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/
• http://csl.stanford.edu/CSL%20PAGES/research.html
• http://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/research/areas/net/
• http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/systems.intro.html
• http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~syrah/
• http://www.cs.purdue.edu/pdsl/
• http://www.cs.purdue.edu/nsl/
  
• http://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/
• http://css.csail.mit.edu/
• http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/
• http://lass.cs.umass.edu/