Some resources for effective, efficient computer science research planning and writing

• A theoretician's guide to the experimental analysis of algorithms, by David S. Johnson is here. This 36-page guide gives excellent suggestions on how to formulate experimental analysis giving meaningful results acceptable under scientific peer review.
• How to make .eps files for LaTeX with PowerPoint is here.
• Some excellent tips for writing and formatting computer science papers and documents, written by Jeffrey Scott Vitter entitled "Structure + Style = Communication", are here. The first item entitled "General Writing and Organization" has some very good information.
• The Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator.
• Some logos of sponsors of my research are here.
• How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP is here.
• Some software resources are also available.
• An article entitled "Kilby and the IC", by Tekla S. Perry, IEEE Spectrum, Dec. 1988, pp.40 and 41. This article points out the importance of keeping accurate notes in your research notebooks, as evidenced by Jack Kilby's notebook wherein he documented the discovery of the integrated circuit in 1958.
• UNB Thesis preparation templates. An excellent guide entitled "Hardcore LaTeX Math" describes how to, for example, encode long variable names in LaTeX (p. 6), place several equations in one display (p. 24) or formulate a case structure (p. 28). Some "ugly mistakes" are on p.43 (the last page).
• JabRef reference manager. Based on Java (for any platform), this tool manages your BibTex entries, and provides links to the documents no matter where they are located.
• A latex template (.zip file, 2.1 MB) containing an example .tex, .bib and other associated files used to create a .dvi (then dvipdf to .pdf) file. The template is based on the IEEE Transactions .cls file, and is useful as a starting point for preparing thesis proposals and papers. Thanks to Wei Song for providing this Latex preparation template on Oct. 4, 2011.