Welcome

• Ph.D. Program Welcome (Brook Wu)
• Letter to Ph.D. Applicants (Ph.D. Director, Michael Bieber)

Student Planning Forms

Please fill out a form every semester, go over it with your advisor turn in a copy to the IS department secretary, for your files.

• Students entering Spring 2008 and later
• Students entering Fall 2003 and later
• Students entering prior to Fall 2003

Student Status Form

Please fill out a form every semester, go over it with your advisor turn in a copy to the IS department secretary, for your files.

• Student Information Form

Example State of the Art Papers (SOTA)

• David Spencer
• Joanna DeFranco-Tomamarello

Path to the Ph.D.

• Part 1 - Getting Started (Roxanne Hiltz)
• Part 2 - State of the Art Paper (Roxanne Hiltz)
• Part 3 - Dissertation Proposal (Roxanne Hiltz)
• Part 4 - Dissertation (Roxanne Hiltz)

Writing and Reviewing

• Writing Technical Papers (Marilyn Tremaine)
• Paper Titles and Abstracts (Roxanne Hiltz and Marilyn Tremaine)
• How to Review (Michael Bieber)
• How to Critique a Research Paper (Michael Bieber)
• How to Critique a Professional Article (Michael Bieber)
• Publishing Journal Articles (Michael Bieber)

Miscellaneous Information

• Becoming Well Known (Michael Bieber)
• Ph.D. Job Hunting Notes (Michael Bieber)
• What Professors Do (Michael Bieber)
• How to have a Bad Career in Research / Academia (Dr. David Patterson, UC Berkley)