researching, writing, publishing, and succeeding tuesday, january 12 th, 2010 computer architecture...
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Researching, Writing, Publishing, and Succeeding
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Computer Architecture Research Group (CARG)http://carg.site.uottawa.ca
Outline
• Choosing a Prof• Grants• Publications• Anatomy of a Literature Review• RDP/SVN/CVS/FTP for papers and code• Latex
– MIKTEX, latex engine– WinShell latex gui– standard latex bibliography file– IEEE Author Digital Tool Box
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CARG: Professors
• Miodrag Bolic– Research:
• configurable computer architectures • applied digital signal processing
• Voicu Groza– Coordinator for Computer Engineering at uOttawa– Research:
• reconfigurable computing • applications of embedded systems.
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Students and Project Areas
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Area of Research People
Modeling and profiling of multiprocessing systems
Subhasis Banerjee (PostDoc)
Custom Instruction Identification for MPSoC
Daniel Shapiro (PhD)
Multiprocessor Instruction Scheduling
Michael Montcalm (MS)
Custom Instruction Selection and Processor Integration
Jonathan Parri (MS)
Internal Custom Hardware Generation
Philip Necsulescu (MS)
Coprocessor Hardware Generation
Vishal Thareja (MS)
Graphical User Interface Development
John-Marc Desmarais (MS)
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Choosing a Prof
• Are you a leader or a follower?– Leaders: find a prof who will give you room to research
wherever your heart takes you.– Followers: Find a prof in your area who has piles of
money. Often these profs will hand you a research project and you won’t have to find a problem to solve.
• Make sure you do not get involved with a bad prof (they do exist)– Bad prof trait 1: domineering and pushy– Bad prof trait 2: unenthusiastic and disinterested
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Grants
• Who pays for stuff?– Scholarship: NSERC/OGS for marks and publications– Salary: NSERC from a prof’s grant– Privatization: CITO, I2I, others…
• Who pays for conference trip?– Hotel and airfare are a combo of the Prof and FGPS if
you are eligible. – Sometimes the prof goes and you stay. It all depends
on the budget and the distance. – Try to stay local to North America.
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Publications
• Thesis (Very long ≈ 150 pages)• Journal (long format around 30 pages)• Conference (usually 4-6 pages)• Ask yourself: how much work do I want to do?
How big is my contribution?• Everyone should read:
– “The best method for presentation of research results in theses and papers” (Ivan Stojmenovic) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~dshap092/ceg4136/Stojmenovic.pdf
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Anatomy of a Literature Review
• What was done so far? (background)– Journals, conferences, books, standards and
technical reports• Taxonomy (tree)• Classification (table)• Explore each aspect of the literature• Weaknesses of prior art
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IEEE Xplore
1. http://www.site.uottawa.ca/2. English3. Quick Picks library4. Databases (A-Z)5. IEEE Xplore (max users: 15)
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IEEE Xplore
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IEEE Xplore
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ACM Digital Library
1. http://www.site.uottawa.ca/2. English3. Quick Picks library4. Databases (A-Z)5. ACM Digital Library
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On/off campus access
Proxy from off campus Direct access on campus
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Refworks
1. Google “refworks uottawa”2. http://www.biblio.uottawa.ca/content-page.
php?g=en&s=biblio&c=src-bas&linxID=2123. Set up an account4. Set up RefGrab-it bookmark
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Refworks
1. Go to Xplore2. Search for neuroplasticity3. Select “Abstract Plus” under “Neuroplasticity
in vision dysfunction”
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Xmarks: synch bookmarks
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RDP into SITE
• Install the cisco VPN client• Connect to the uottawa VPN:
http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/connect/wireless/vpn-client.html
• Add an exception to your SITE machine’s firewall
• Remote desktop into your SITE workstation
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RDP into home
• Remote desktop into your home PC’s IP address
• As far as I know it works with both bell and rogers
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FTP/SSH
• Get WS_FTP95 and SSH Client here: http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/download/
• We use our own FTP solution in the states, but the principle is the same:
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SVN
• subclipse or subversive with eclipse• Tortoise with windows• Update and then commit• We use our own SVN server at
svn://svn.site.uottawa.ca:31337/ (ELEET) but the idea is the same
• Get your own SVN access from sourceforge.net or from SITE (email [email protected], or Jacques Sincennes <[email protected]>)
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Checking out the source code and files
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Checking out the source code and files
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Checking out the source code and files
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Checking out the source code and files
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Adding new folders or files
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Update on the highest level folder in the repository and then commit on that folder. Remember: “update and then commit”
Adding new folders or files
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Update on the highest level folder in the repository and then commit on that folder. Remember: “update and then commit”
Adding new folders or files
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Don’t forget to add a comment!
Adding new folders or files
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Don’t forget to add a comment!
SVN inside eclipse!
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LATEX
• Latex• Code your papers and equations instead of
WYSIWYG with MS word• Getting started is simple:
– MIKTEX, latex engine (COMPILER)– WinShell latex gui (EDITOR)– standard latex bibliography file (REPOSITORY)– IEEE Author Digital Tool Box (e.g. TEMPLATE)
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Questions?