Additional Hints

• The Annals of Improbable Research  
• Dave Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia
• Some Advice for Getting Through Graduate School by Barbara Durham (some good links under the heading "writing" )
• The ACM Computing Classification System (ACM CCS)
• 1998 Version, Valid in 2001
• How to Classify Works Using ACM's Computing Classification System
• Institute for Scientific Information, Science Citation Index
• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre, a guide to "networking" using the Internet. A great resource, and a great read.