Useful Links

Admin

• Blackboard
  • Submitting Assignments via Blackboard
• CS 795/895 Mailing List
• ODU Honor Council
• CS Dept Systems Group (Unix account questions)
  • Create a CS Account
  • CS Lab Hours
• Printing Lecture Notes

Unix

• Opening X Windows Remotely
• Intro to Unix (Dr. Zeil's CS 252)
• Unix/C/HTML Useful Links
• Emacs Tutorial (Unix text editor)

Professional Communication, Writing, and Presentations

• How to Email a Professor
• How to Talk to a Professor
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition, Strunk and White
• Writing for Computer Science, Justin Zobel
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services (these tutors are only for undergrads, but the webpage has great resources)
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program
• Presentation Methods (from CS 410 / Janet Brunelle, instructor)

Presentation Advice from the IEEE TCCC mailing list

• How To Give a Talk - very nice and comprehensive set of guidelines from Arnaud Legout
  • but, don't actually use Comics Sans
• How To Give a Talk - by Nitin Vaidya (UIUC, chair of MobiCom 2010)
• General Advice - from Michalis Faloutsos (UC-Riverside)

Research Methods

• How to Read a Research Paper by S. Keshav, 2007.
• Some Tips for Reading Research Papers by Tia Newhall
• How to Read an Engineering Research Paper by William Griswold
• Summary of a Scientific Article, George Mason Biology Dept.
• A Referee's Plea by Mark Allman
• Library Resources (links for off-campus access to ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore)
• Guide for Statistical Charts from UK Parliament (pdf)

Software

ns-3

• main website
• ns-3 wiki
• ns-3 tutorials and manuals
• Tutorial

Traffic Simulation

• Treiber's Traffic Applet

Gnuplot

• main website
• demos
• documentation
• Examples of colors and symbols generated for PS/PDF (pdf)

LaTeX

• LaTeX @ wikibooks
• Getting to Grips with LaTeX
• Common Commands
• LaTeX cheat sheet (2 pg, pdf)

Conferences/Journals

• VANET 2010
• IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2009
• ACM Mobicom
• Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Communications Magazine - has an Automotive Networking series every few months

US Initiatives

• IntelliDrive
  • From VII to Intellidrive
• RITA ITS Strategic Research Plan 2010-2014