{"id":26,"date":"2015-06-18T19:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:24:56","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Resources\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Here are a few resources for research methodology: writing papers, making presentations&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"latex-resources\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">LateX Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sce.carleton.ca\/faculty\/esfandiari\/Thesis-Example-2025.zip\">LateX Thesis template<\/a> for Carleton University (can be used for M.A.Sc. or Ph.D.). An older version can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sce.carleton.ca\/faculty\/esfandiari\/ThesisTemplate.zip\">here<\/a>, but the front page is out of date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wch.github.io\/latexsheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LateX cheat sheet<\/a>: two pages condensing the essential LateX (pdf format).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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, <a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.hmc.edu\/ctan\/info\/symbols\/comprehensive\/symbols-letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this comprehensive list<\/a> (4MB pdf document) has 4947 symbols and it&#8217;s quite likely that you&#8217;ll find what you need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"project downloads\">Research Project Related Downloads:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/research-projects\/software-agent-imitation\/\">Software Agent Imitation<\/a>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/jLOAF.zip\">jLOAF 1.0 (source)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/jLOAF-1.0.jar_.zip\">jLOAF 1.0 (JAR) <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/jLOAF-Tetris.zip\"> jLOAF Tetris 1.0 Source<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/jLOAFTetris-1.0.jar_.zip\">jLOAF Tetris 1.0 JAR<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/jTetris.jar_.zip\">jTetris <\/a>(set to work with jLOAF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/log.txt\">log.txt <\/a>(sample log file)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/research-projects\/universal-peer-to-peer\/\">UP2P<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/p2pedia\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to get the P2Pedia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/UserGuide1.pdf\">User Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/research-projects\/universal-peer-to-peer\/polyester\/\">Polyester<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/NMAI-lab-polyester-b2a1e3d-2.zip\">Download<\/a> Polyester<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NMAI-lab\/polyester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fork<\/a> Polyester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/research-projects\/universal-peer-to-peer\/simulation-visualizer\/\">Simulation Visualizer<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/GraphVisualizerRunnable.jar_.zip\">Download<\/a> Simulation Visualizer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/research-projects\/magenta-2\/\">Magenta<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/magenta020.zip\">Download<\/a> the latest release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Download current and past releases from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/magenta\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magenta project files page<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quick-start <a href=\"http:\/\/magenta.sourceforge.net\/magenta\/README\">instructions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magenta.sourceforge.net\/magenta\/RELEASE\">What is New<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magenta.sourceforge.net\/magenta\/COPYING\">Licensing info<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magenta.sourceforge.net\/magenta\/magenta\">Source<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magenta.sourceforge.net\/magenta\/magenta-user\">User Code<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magenta.sourceforge.net\/magenta\/docs\">Javadoc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"more-philosophical-things\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Philosophical Things&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What graduate research is all about, and some general guidelines to get started on a thesis, by Prof. Chinneck: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sce.carleton.ca\/faculty\/chinneck\/thesis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;How to organize your thesis&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.columbia.edu\/~hgs\/etc\/writing-style.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writing Technical Articles<\/a>, by Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University)<br><br>At the bottom of that page, the section &#8220;other references&#8221; 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A couple more resources by Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh), more specifically, oriented to computer science. Alan Bundy teaches a course about <em>Informatics Research Methodology. <\/em><br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk\/bundy\/how-tos\/writingGuide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to write a paper<\/a>.<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk\/bundy\/how-tos\/resbible.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A guide to research for PhD students<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few resources for research methodology: writing papers, making presentations&#8230; LateX Resources Research Project Related Downloads: More Philosophical Things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/nmai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}