Information for Ph.D. Students
What a great PhD thesis should like
PhD - Organizational Information
A very good overview of what PhD is, what the standards are, etc.: http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/grads.html
What is the difference between a master's degree and a Ph.D.? Please read:
Jason Hong. 2013. Ph.D. students must break away from undergraduate mentality. Commun. ACM 56, 7 (July 2013), 10-11. DOI=10.1145/2483852.2483857 (CACM Blog)
You and Your Research (transcript)
Old, but still valid. The Researcher's Bible by Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe and Gordon Plotkin from the University of Edinburgh.
Systemic Reviews for Software Engineering.
Articles you should read:
- How to write your Ph.D. thesis
- ResearchMethodology
- How to Review (Smith)
- APSObserver-12TipsRorReviewers.pdf
- Comparative LiteratureReview
- ding_popular_vs_prestige.pdf
- Files/commonpitfalls.pdf
- johnson.pdf
- Patricia Beatty, Ian Reay, Scott Dick, and James Miller. 2011. Consumer trust in e-commerce web sites: A meta-study. ACM Comput. Surv. 43, 3, Article 14 (April 2011), 46 pages. DOI=10.1145/1922649.1922651 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1922649.1922651
- HowToReview.pdf
- Establishing Writing Groups and Norman Ramsey's Handbook
Videos & other links
- Purdue University Security Seminar
- Science Direct
- Ed Felton's reading list (dated 2013 but still nice)
- The best bibliography on blockchain and distributed ledgers.
I have to admit my PhD students created it - Davide Balzarotti's System Security Circus v3.0
- Conference/Journal Rakings