Introduction to CS Research, Fall 2022
CS 492 Honors Research Seminar
Welcome!
This is the webpage for CS 492: Introduction to CS Research at IIT. This course is for undergraduates in Computer Science who have enrolled in the Computer Science Honors Research Specialization. Briefly, the goal of this course is to introduce undergraduates in their first or second years to the research process and to research going on in our department. See more in the syllabus.
Useful Books and Resources
- Student Research at IIT
- Matt Migh’s blog has several great articles on grad school
- Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (paper, talk). You can find a more detailed treatment in this book.
- David Anderson’s reflections on doing a PhD in CS
- Mor Harchol-Balter’s advice on applying to PhD programs
- For those interested in systems research: watch Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau’s great keynote from USENIX ATC’19
- Duane Bailey’s Letter to Research Students
- How to be a Good Graduate Student from Marie desJardins
- Courage in technology
- The Morning Paper