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15 Resources

Dianne Prost O'Leary
©1996,1999,2009,2016
Last modified October 12, 2016.

15.1 Professional Societies

15.2 Further information on Graduate Life

How to Be a Good Graduate Student / Advisor by Marie desJardins. Advice to both students and advisors.
The TAP project of ADA gives many resources on professional life for women in computer science.
A Letter to Research Students by Duane A. Bailey
The 1993 IUCS Graduate Student Survival Guide
Survival Skills for Graduate Women (1993) by Jennifer Myers.
How to do Research in the MIT AI Lab ed. David Chapman

15.3 Electronic Mentoring Networks

15.4 Useful Meetings for Women and Minorities

15.5 Mental Health

Depression
Depression, Anxiety, and Substance Abuse Screening
Adult Attention Deficit Screening (ADHD)
Bipolar Disorder
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Alcohol Dependence
National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-TALK

15.6 Literature on Technical Writing and Speaking

Mark Leone's collection of pointers.
How to Write Mathematics by P. Halmos.
How to Solve It by George Polya, 2 ed. Princeton University Press, 1957.
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by K.L. Turabian, 4 ed.University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1973.
How to Read and Do Proofs by D. Solow, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982.
Latex User's Guide and Reference Manual by Leslie Lamport, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, Reading, Massachusetts.
Mathematical Writing by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts, MAA Notes No. 14, 1989.
Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham, SIAM Press, 1993.
An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, or, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper by Roy Levin and David D. Redell

15.7 Teaching Advice

Mathematics Archives gives pointers on the teaching of mathematics.
Educational Issues for Girls and Women in Mathematics , Canadian Mathematical Society
Mentoring Grad Students by Jeff Johnston

15.8 Career Advice

PhdsOrg: Science, Math, and Engineering Links Index of on-line resources, including other survival guides like this one.
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia by David Patterson
Networking on the Network by Phil Agre
On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research from the National Academy of Sciences
The Assistant Professor's Guide to the Galaxy by George A. Bekey
A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science by Ian Parberry.
Alan Jay Smith, ``The task of the referee," IEEE Computer, April 1990, pp. 65-71.
Careers in Science and Engineering: A Student Guide to Grad School and Beyond.
Writing Research Proposals to the National Science Foundation Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University.
The Impostor Syndrome

15.9 Resources for Job Searching

Check the homepages for the professional societies listed above.
Computing Research Association ad list
How To Handle Illegal Interview Questions from Job Hunter E-Zine.
Resources from ACM Crossroads

15.10 Resources for Applying to a U.S. Graduate School

15.11 Literature on Women and Minorities in Science

Computing Research News has a large set of tables each year of computer science facts and figures, including data on percentages of minorities/females granted Ph.D's, average salaries in computer science departments, etc.
AAAS Diversity Issues
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering by Donna J. Dean,
CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Research
Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists? by Ellen Spertus.
National Center for Women & Information Technology
Is There Bias for or Against Women in Academia? by Perdita Stevens

15.12 Professional Ethics

Most professions have a code of professional conduct. Many of these can be found at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Two specific codes are
- ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
Further information is available from
- the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law
- American Physical Society statements on ethics
- EthicsWeb Applied Ethics Resources on Science and Technology
Most universities have a guide to academic integrity. Here is one for the University of Maryland
Professional Ethics: Taking the High Road, Dianne P. O'Leary, SIAM News, October 18, 2011
Guidelines for determining authorship of papers are somewhat different in each field. Here are some references (thanks to Timothy O'Leary):

Science, January 12, 1996 vol 271 pp 129-30 (letter to editor)

Science, December 8, 1995 vol 270 p 1557 (letter)

Science, November 10, 1995 vol 270 pp 927-928

Science, June 23, 1995 vol 268p 1712-5

**Science, May 12, 1995 vol 268 pp 785-6 (letter by author who appears from name to be the editor of New England Journal of Medicine)

Science, April 7, 1995 vol 268 p 25 (news and comments on multiauthor papers)

JAMA 1996 July 3 vol 276 p 75 (editorial)

Nature 1995 July 13 vol 376 p 113

Nature 1995 June 15 vol 375 p 522 (editorial on honorary authorship)

Nature 1994 December 1 vol 372 p 390 (editorial on pitfalls of coauthorship)

New England Journal of Medicine 1991 November 21 vol 325 pp 1510-12 JAMA 1990 October 10 vol 264 p 1857 (editorial on order of authorship)

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