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Creative Thinking by Claude Shannon at Bell Labs
How to do a systems PhD: advice from Steven Hand
Hints for Computer System Design (Butler Lampson)
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia (Patterson , Kozyrakis )
How to read papers (1 , 2) and how to review them
Advice on Research and Writing, Jon’s Collection , and a referee’s plea
Writing a good abstract and introduction
How to do great research
How to get a faculty job By Matt Welsh
How to build a research lab
How to write boring papers
Talking the Talk: Tips on Giving a Successful Conference Presentation
Can you trust your experimental results?
Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students
How to manage your PhD supervisor
How to write a killer cover letter for a postdoctoral application
Two examples from the computer science review and publication process Blog post by David Anderson
How to Write a Grad School Personal Statement and some examples
Ten Simple Rules to becoming a principal investigator
How to run a paper mill
Datasets & Tool
The Koblenz Network Collection http://konect.uni-koblenz.de/
CAIDA Internet traffic, topology & routing datasets http://www.caida.org/data/
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection http://snap.stanford.edu/data/
CRAWDAD Wireless Data http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/
Unix Tools Video Lectures by Markus Kuhn (Cambridge) https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1617/UnixTools/video/
Mobile/IoT Libraries
Sensing Kit (mobile sensors on Android/iOS) http://www.sensingkit.org
Sensor hardware and code for the IoT Connected Seeds project https://github.com/nandadoes/cs-sensor-unit
Emotion Sense (collection of Android libraries) [http://emotionsense.org/code.html
X-Sense Labs (Android) https://github.com/xsenselabs
Android Remote Sensing Platform http://tecvis.co.uk/software/airs
IP Networks
SIGCOMM graduate-level eBook on “Recent Advances in Networking”
Internet Engineering course at University of Virginia
Richard Clegg’s material on modelling networks and network theory and routing
Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols & Practice, Open-source book Olivier Bonaventure
Computer Networks course by Paolo Costa
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 6th ed. by J.F. Kurose and K.W. Ross (slides)
Keshav’s video Lectures on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking
Maths, Telecommunications, and Information Theory
Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay
Claude Shannon: Collected Papers
Mathematics Books Available for Free Downloading
Fundamentals of Telecommunications
Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms
Performance Evaluation Of Computer And Communication Systems (book)
Social Network Analysis
Weighted Spectral Distribution
Matlab tools for network analysis