Guidlines for writing a good proposal

• Crafting Better Proposals Using the Heilmeier Catechism
• Nine Questions to A Focused Proposal
• The Heilmeier Catechism

Advices for Ph.D Study

• So long, and thanks for the Ph.D. by Ronald T.Azuma
• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. by Matt Might
• A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications by Philip Guo
• Establishing Contact with Faculty (For Students) by Tamara Denning
• How to Read a Paper by Srinivasan Keshav
• How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia by David A. Patterson
• Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic by Guofei Gu
• Research skills: Advice Collection by Tao Xie
• Research skills: Advice on Research and Writing
• Research skills: Paper Reading Check List
• Research skills: Writing Tips from Dr. Kurose
• Research skills: Networking Conferences Statistics
• Research skills: 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. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 17(3):35-40 (July, 1983). More than 20 years old, but timeless and excellent advice.

Deadlines of CS Conferences

• Deadlines of conferences by Dan Tsafirr: The page lists the deadlines for most sys conferences.
• CCF Conference Deadline: List the recent deadlines of CCF conferences.
• Cipher Calls for Papers.

Research Topics and CS Techique Tracking

• The moorning papers:: Share a quick introduction on interesting papers.
• LWN: LWN presents the news about Linux (and actually more than Linux). It will introduces recent discussions on interesting patches, hot topics on OSes, and quickly reviews on related news.
• The Next Platform: Learn more about the emerging hardware things, e.g., emerging interconnect design.
• Hacker News: News and discussions of a wide topics
• Usernix Conference News: Check the recent events on Usenix conferences. It’s helpful to learn the most research topics and techniques.