How To Give a Good Research Talk

Great advice from Simon Peyton Jones on how to give a good research talk. Simon Peyton Jones is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, and a Professor of the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University.

How to Organize your Thesis

This note describes how to organize the written thesis which is the central element of your graduate degree. To know how to organize the thesis document, you first have to understand what graduate-level research is all about, so that is covered too. In other words, this note should be helpful when you are just getting started in your graduate program, as well as later when you start to write your thesis.

How To Write a Great Research Paper

Great advice from Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research.

Scholarship Tips: Australian Leadership Awards

At 10 am on 10 September 2007 I started the interview in a room at Four Seasons Hotel in Jakarta, second floor. It was a bit late since the original schedule was 9.45 am. Three interviewers were in the room: two ladies from AusAID and one gentleman from the Australian Embassy for Indonesia.

Like other interviews with western people, the atmosphere was very friendly, far from intimidating. The team leader, a lady, started to introduce herself and her two colleagues. I was impressed with the politeness and the way she treated me as an interviewee. I could not see an impression that they were the important and I was the less important. We were equal. This type of interview should have been applied by enterprises in Indonesia for their employee recruitment.

How to write a Curriculum Vitae (CV)

The CV (resume, in American English) is meant to introduce you and your background to somebody who does not know you and barely has time to get to know you. It should present you in the best possible light, in a concise and well-structured manner. There are plenty of resume-writing guides out there, that can teach you to the smallest details how to write one. Their regular problem is that they do not agree with each other when it comes to details. This is why we have put here together a number of generally agreed guide-lines, plus some specific details that could help EE students. A regular CV for business purposes should definitely not go over one A4 page. If you intend to use it for academic purposes and not for a job, the CV can pass that limit, on the condition that you use the extra space to describe academic activities, like conferences, publications list, etc. A well-written CV shows first what is most important, but contains all relevant information. To this goal, we advise you to adapt it to your target (specific type of job or scholarship). Cut information from your CV only as a solution of last resort, but pay attention to the order in which you present it in your CV.

How To Write a Letter of Intent

A letter of intent is typically written by a student who is looking to sell himself to an undergraduate college/university, a graduate school, an athletic department at a college/university, or a business that provides an internship. The purpose of the letter of intent is a sales pitch. You are selling yourself and your abilities.