Resources
Here are a few resources for research methodology: writing papers, making presentations…
LateX Resources
- A LateX Thesis template for Carleton University (can be used for M.A.Sc. or Ph.D.). An older version can be found here, but the front page is out of date.
- The LateX cheat sheet: two pages condensing the essential LateX (pdf format).
- If you need something really obscure such as the symbol for a boson in a Feynman diagram, or a squiggly arrow pointing in both directions, this comprehensive list (4MB pdf document) has 4947 symbols and it’s quite likely that you’ll find what you need.
Research Project Related Downloads:
- Software Agent Imitation:
- jLOAF 1.0 (source)
- jLOAF 1.0 (JAR)
- jLOAF Tetris 1.0 Source
- jLOAF Tetris 1.0 JAR
- jTetris (set to work with jLOAF)
- log.txt (sample log file)
- UP2P
- Click here to get the P2Pedia
- User Guide
- Polyester
- Simulation Visualizer
- Download Simulation Visualizer
- Magenta
- Download the latest release
- Download current and past releases from the Magenta project files page
- Quick-start instructions
- What is New
- Licensing info
- Source
- User Code
- Javadoc
More Philosophical Things…
- What graduate research is all about, and some general guidelines to get started on a thesis, by Prof. Chinneck: “How to organize your thesis”.
- Writing Technical Articles, by Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University)
At the bottom of that page, the section “other references” links to a number of other resources that can be of interest. One of them is an excellent essay by Oded Goldreich, and Israeli researcher in cryptography: How to write a paper. - A couple more resources by Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh), more specifically, oriented to computer science. Alan Bundy teaches a course about Informatics Research Methodology.
How to write a paper.
A guide to research for PhD students.