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CIS 640 Writing in Computer Research

Fall 2012

READINGS

Readings about Writing: 

Prof. Douglas "My Writing Advice [Download pdf]

"How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper" from ACM SIGOPS Conference Chairs [Download pdf]

Readings about Algorithm Presentation: 

Edsger Dijkstra's celebrated note "Go-To Considered Harmful" Comm. ACM 11, 3 (March 1968), 147-148 [Download pdf]

Example of Excellent Paper used for Class Meetings on Chapters 11 (Experiments),6 (Graphs,Diagrams & Tables),14 (Presentations) 

Ali Ghodsi et al. "Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types", USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (2011) [Download pdf]

EXAMPLE of a Good 20 minute talk: Video from Ali Ghodsi "Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types", USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (2011) [Download mp4 video]

EXAMPLE of a Good 20 minute talk: Slides from Ali Ghodsi "Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types", USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (2011) [Download pdf]