Training Materials and Supplement Materials

Randy Pausch's talks

• A great talk on your life plan is HERE.
• Another great talk on your time scheduling strategies and techniques is HERE. 

Slide-making techniques

• Death by Powerpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck
• Life after death by Powerpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZDZ78fGWk

Recommended paper reading list (incomplete yet)

• Shvachko, K. et al. "The Hadoop Distributed File System," IEEE 26th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), 2010.
• Zaharia, Matei, et al. "Spark: cluster computing with working sets." Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing. 2010.
• Fay Chang, et al. "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data," ACM Transactions on Computing Systems 26, 2, Article 4, 2008. 
• Jongmin Lee, et al. "Block recycling schemes and their cost-based optimization in nand flash memory based storage system," In Proceedings of the 7th ACM & IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2007.
• Kyoungmoon Sun et al. "LTFTL: lightweight time-shift flash translation layer for flash memory based embedded storage," In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2008.
• Xiaoyan Xiang et al. "A reliable B-tree implementation over flash memory," In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2008.
• Jeong-Uk Kang et al. "A superblock-based flash translation layer for NAND flash memory," In Proceedings of the 6th ACM & IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2006.
• Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Liang Wu, Tei-Wei Kuo, and Shih-Hao Hung. 2012. An adaptive file-system-oriented FTL mechanism for flash-memory storage systems. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2012.
• Guanying Wu and Xubin He, "Delta-FTL: improving SSD lifetime via exploiting content locality," In Proceedings of the 7th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2012.

Paper writing tools

• Online thesis/dissertation progress scheduler
• https://library.rit.edu/researchguides/disscalc/index.phtml
• LaTeX compiler distributions
• TeX live: https://www.tug.org/texlive/
• LaTeX source editors
• TeXstudio: http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/
• TeXnicCenter: http://www.texniccenter.org/
• Dictionary and spellcheckers (incomplete)
•  WordWeb: http://wordweb.info/free/
• Reference managers
• Bibtex (included in TeX live)
• JabRef (front-end for bibtex): http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
• Figure-editing software
• CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 (expensive commercial software, but it worths)
• View your desktop in list view (so as to stack more things in your desktop): http://code.google.com/p/desktoplistview/
• Misc. LaTeX tools and resources
• LaTeX tutorials
• "The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e," URL: tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
• Detexify recognizes hand-written symbols and convert them into LaTeX commands.
• Detexify is an online tool and does not need to be downloaded.
• URL: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
  
• Latexdiff compares between two LaTeX source files and reports the differences (revisions) in different colors.
• Latexdiff is included in TeX live.
• URL: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff
• Cleverref provides smart reference methods that will automatically recognize the type of the referred targets.
• Cleverref is included in TeX live.
• URL: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref

Good (and Free!) Learning Materials

• Introduction of some data structures: http://www.eternallyconfuzzled.com/tuts/datastructures/jsw_tut_rbtree.aspx