Resources on Academia

Education

• Robert F. Kennedy on the privileged status that those of us with an education have in this world.
• Generation of Greatness: On university education by Edwin Land.

Computer Science

• Why choose computer science?
• History of Computing
• History of Programming Languages

Graduate Education in Computer Science

• Notes on the Ph.D. degree
• Ph.D. thesis proposals in computer science
• How to read research papers efficiently
• Computer Science Ranking
• Computer Science Systems Ranking
• Computer Science Graphics Ranking

Inspirational

• Steve Jobs: 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
• Randy Pausch: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

English

• Avoiding some common mistakes in English

Other Useful/Interesting Links

• Check this one that Wilson compiled . . .
• History of the WWW
• History of Women and Computers
• Software in Space: The Computers That Made Apollo Missions Possible