Reading

This page is a work in progress and currently includes readings that we have used in past offerings of the course.  We currently have links to useful books, but we will continue to add links to websites, blogs, and other articles as we collect them.  Please feel free to use the comments below to send us links to add.

Books

On Great Ideas

• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• James Adams, Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
• James Burke, Connections

Writing and Speaking

• Strunk and White, The Elements of Style
• Justin Zobel, Writing for Computer Science
• Joey Asher, Even a Geek can Speak

Time Management

• Eugene Greissman, Time Tactics of Very Successful People

Problem Solving

• G. Polya, How to Solve It

Case Studies of Researchers

• Paul Baran
  • On Distributed Communications Networks
  • Interview
• Richard Hamming
  • You and Your Research

Blogs, Articles, etc.

Compendiums of General Advice

• Mike Ernst’s Advice for Students and Research
• Tao Xie’s Collection of Advice for Researchers