Resources for Graduate Students

Basics:

• Survival in the Academy from Indiana University
  

• So long,and thanks for the Ph.D.! by Ronald Azuma
  

• How to be a Good Graduate Student by Marie DesJardins
  
  Graduate Student Resources on the Web list of links
  
  

On Writing and Presenting:

Writing

• Latex Tutorial by Jeff Clark
  

• Politics and the English Language by George Orwell.
  

• Dissertation Advice by Olin Shivers
  

• Some Hints on Mathematical Style by David Goss
  

• Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal by Joseph Levine
  

• Why you should use LaTeX
  

Presenting

• Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver, by William Germano, Chronicles of Higher Education
  

• Oral Presentation Advice by Mark Hill
  

• Conference Etiquette by Mark Hill and David Wood
  

Advanced Topics:

• You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
  

• Technology and Courage by Ivan Sutherland
  

• Networking on the network By Phil Agre
  
  

compressive sensing

http://dsp.rice.edu/research/compressive-sensing

Linux command

To check the information of CPU
less /proc/cpuinfo

To check the information of CPU
less /proc/meminfo

HAHA, a cow watering in Infocom

Look at this cow in wireless networking:

Dr. baochun li

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~bli/

He has 11 papers accepted to 2010 Infocom, while last year 9 papers.
In his publication page, only Infocom papers are listed....
How can he achieve that!

Someday, I am gonna to talk with him to capture some experience...

begin a time on convex optimization

I started a self studying time specialized on convex optimization.
will focus on the foundation of convex optimization, trying to dig into tricks and principles.
Hope I can get what I want.
Will update my progress frequently. Keep watch me! :)
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Some information about Convex Optimizations course by Dr. Stephen Boyd in Stanford
Name: EE364a: Convex Optimization I
Book: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf
Slides: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/lectures.html
Homework list: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/homework.html
HW solution: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/hw
Video lectures: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/videos.html
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Dec.16 chapter 1 done!
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Dec.17th
stuck in numberless definition of optimizations
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Dec.18th
done chapter 2, gave a presentation on CH1&2 at 3:00-5:00pm :)
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Dec. 28th
Still in CH3
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Jan 4th
Done CH3, begin the CH4

funny biography

Check the biography of this faculty member in UIUC...

so funny, ha!

http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/

Wireless Power

Wireless Power, what a fantastic technology being hot developed right now...
Will keep following the update! :)

http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222000664&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS

Wireless Power Consortium
http://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/

Reference on rate adaption

A few references on rate adaption:
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/290Q/Papers/Radios/LanziseraMultirate15dot4.pdf
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1161107&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=49476314&CFTOKEN=36292035
http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~daji/papers/infocom2006.pdf
www.mit.edu/~mythili/research/sigcomm258-vutukuru.pdf
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/nsl/jhchoi-DARF.pdf