Stuff I cooked up

General Links

• Don Knuth's All questions answered
• Hamming's You and your research
• Tutorials on all languages,packages,...
• RFCs
• Treasure Trove of Paper Summaries
• William Stallings's resource page.
• Prof.Andy Tanenbaum's ( yeah, the guy whose books suffer from too much loose talk. To be fair to him, I do like them and have learnt quite a bit from them) brawl with Linus on comp.os.minix makes interesting reading.
• Prof.Sugih Jamin has some useful pointers.
• Prof.Henning Schulzrinne has some advice on writing networks and systems papers
• I've been on the Analysis of Algorithms page since my undergrad.
• Free online books in CS are here
• Free online books in math are here and here.

Networks Stuff

• The SRG at Georgia Tech has a decent set of links to similar groups, and OOB networking stuff.
• Prof.Henning Schulzrinne's list of papers every networks Ph.D. should know about.
• The inventor of the internet has some anecdotes of the first few moments of internet history.
• When you think networks, THINK protocols
• The oldest network simulator of them all.

Humour

Several researchers at the University of Louisiana have been studying the computing power of various amphibians, frogs in particular. The problem of frog computability has become a critical issue that ranges across all areas of computer science. It has been shown that anything computable by an amphi- bian community in a fixed-size pond is computable by a frog in the same-size pond -- that is to say, frogs are Pond-space complete. We will show that there is a log-space, polywog-time reduction from any Turing machine program to a frog. We will suggest these represent a proper subset of frog-computable functions.

This is not just a let's-see-how-far-those-frogs-can-jump seminar. This is only for hardcore amphibian-computation people and their colleagues. Refreshments will be served. Music will be played.

Courtesy: /usr/games/fortune.

More Humour

    There is one true editor. Join the church of Emacs , study the gospel according to tux , laugh with the GNU , and be blessed by St.IGNUcius.

    A typical day in a grad student's life should allot time for the annals of improbable research. The rabbit joke ought to be made mandatory reading for first year graduate students. Find out why it's all Piled Higher and Deeper at phd.stanford.edu.

   Prof.Doug Comer @cs.purdue.edu has a whole bunch of amusing essays. In particular, you should try his thesis topic generator. Knowing what the professor really means and understanding common research phrases might help avoid a a bad career in research/academia.