Books & Textbooks

Available for free online

• Wireless networks course notes by Prof. Nitin Vaidya @ UIUC

• Computer Networks Performance and Quality of Service by Prof. Ivan Marsic

• The Design of Approximation Algorithms by David P. Williamson and David B. Shmoys

• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

List of lists of textbooks

• A list maintained by Prof. Dhillon

• Recommended books in math and stats (by SGSA @ UC Berkeley)

• CS textbook collection @ ETH Zurich

General

• The Ph.D. Grind

Websites

Blogs

• Scott Aaronson

• Matt Welsh

• Matt Might

• Philip Guo

Forums

• Hacker News

Software & Services

Free software for .edu

• IBM CPLEX

• JetBrains IDEs for SW development (IntelliJ Idea for Java, PyCharm for Python, CLion for C/C)

• Basecamp for project management

• BitBucket - free unlimited public and private Git repos

Free services and datasets

• Solve numerical optimization problems in the cloud

• CRAWDAD: Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth

Conferences and Deadlines

• Networking Conferences Statistics by Prof. Almeroth A list compiled by Michael Atakora:

Conference	Deadline	Notification	Location + Date
SenSys	3-Apr-16	17-Jul-16	Brasilia, Brazil, Oct 10-13, 2016
MASS	9-Apr-16	17-Jun-16	Stanford, CA, USA, Nov 14-16, 2016
Globecom	15-Apr-16	1-Jul-16	Washington DC, Dec. 4-8, 2016
WiSEE	18-Apr-16	1-Jun-16	Aachen, Germany, Sept. 26-29, 2016
MILCOM	25-Apr-16	27-Jun-16	Baltimore, Nov. 1-3, 2016
CNSM	15-May-16	July 11-17, 2016	Montreal, Canada, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2016.
AICCSA	19-May-16	7-Jul-16	Agadir, Morocco, Nov. 29- Dec 02, 2016.
WiMOB	31-May-16	31-Jul-16	New York, Oct. 17-19, 2016
WF-IOT	15-Jun-16	Sept. 30, 2016	Reston, VA, USA, Dec. 12-14,2016
ICT-DM	1-Jun-16	Aug. 31, 2016	Vienna, Austria, Dec. 13 -15 2016
ICSPCS	30-Jun-16	Sept. 15, 2016	Surfers Paradise, Australia, Dec. 19-21 2016
CCNC	15-Jun-16	Sept. 4, 2016	Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 8-11 2017.
ICCCN	Dec. 11, 2016	Jan. 11, 2017	Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11-12, 2017.
ICNC	5-Jul-16	Sept. 20, 2016	Silicon Valley, USA, Feb. 2-5, 2017.
INFOCOM	22-Jul-16	20-Nov-16	Istanbul, Turkey, April 23-27, 2017.
GreenCom	31-Aug-16	Sept. 30, 2016	Chengdu, China, Dec. 15-18, 2016.
COMSNETS	Sept. 5, 2016		Bengaluru, India, Jan. 4-8, 2017.
PerCom	Sept. 23, 2016	Dec. 12, 2016	Hawaii, USA, March 13-17, 2017
WCNC	Sept. 30, 2016	Dec. 15, 2016	San Francisco, USA, March 19-22, 2017.
SENSORNETS	7-Oct-16	Dec. 2, 2016	Porto, Portugal, Feb. 19-21, 2017.
ICSC	7-Oct-16		San Diego, USA, Jan 20-Feb 1, 2017.
ICC			France, May 21-25, 2017.
ICIP	Feb 1. 2017		Beijing, China, Sept. 18-20, 2017
IWQoS			Jun-17
MobiSys			Jun-17
MobiHoc			Jul-17
ITNG
SIGCOMM			Los Angeles, USA, Aug. 21-25, 2017.
MobiCom			Oct. 2017
WAMICON
WTS