Term Paper Topic

My term paper topic will be on the culture difference between America and China. I am going to narrow this big topic down to some more specific one later.

Emails

The email is almost the most important way for communication in daily life. I talked with professors, friends and other people via email every day. As my advisor is very busy and he has a lot of stuff to deal with, we talked about most of my research through email and usually in an informal way. The email notifier tells me what's going on in the inbox from time to time, so email is nearly an immediate messager and I won't miss some important information. Email is not only for mails transmission now, and it also provides a lot of other functionalities, such as calindar, blogger and etc. We can do a lot of fancy stuff on email system.

Resources for Doing Research

The first important thing about doing research is to read a lot of papers which can trigger new idears in your research area. As a beginner in some new area, I will try to read some books and classic journal papers for that there are basic but systematic and comprehensive knowledges. And then to read a lot of comference papers is critical, especially to computer science people because computer technologies change so fast that people cannot wait a long circle to publish the ideas on journals but conferences provide an efficient way. Computer scientists can publish their novel ideas as soon as they develop a paper. Usually, you can find more fresh and innovative ideas and cutting-edge research trends on conference papers.

Computer for the life and work

All computers everyday for work and life, especially for one computer science guy. I spend almost all the times except the dinning and sleeping time in front of computer. The first thing is about work, having to stay before the computer working sometimes drives me crazy. When I feel tired working and want to have a rest, so what are the choices? It's computer! You can read news, watch videos, listen to music and all other things. Is this all the life? Maybe we should kind of get rid of the computers.
For health, be away from the computer! :)