CS申请方向选择

原打算08年出国，现在发现自己什么工作都没做。

看来是该有个计划了。

 

GRE还没考，专业方向还没定，学校还没选，材料没准备，教授还没套。

很多事情都没做，我开始担心我到底要几年才能出去。

 

因为出国的事情到底还是和男朋友分手了，梦想不一样，所以只好走开。

因此更是告诉自己一定要出去了。否则那算那门子牺牲？

 

于是准备每天来写日志，监督自己，明年这个时候，希望我能飞跃。：）

 

先研究CS的方向。

 

看过CMU的CS部门界面，我比较熟悉的research area有mobile and pervasive computing，所谓熟悉也只是在INFOSYS实习时接触到而已。

 

1.Mobile computing :

four key constraints of mobility forced the development of specialized techniques. These constraints are: (a) unpredictable variation in network quality; (b) lowered trust and robustness of mobile elements; (c) limitations on local resources imposed by weight and size constraints; (d) concern for battery power consumption. Mobile computing is still a very active and evolving field of research, whose body of knowledge awaits codification. The results achieved so far can be grouped into the following broad topics:

mobile information access, including disconnected operation, bandwidth-adaptive file access, and selective control of data consistency.

support for adaptative applications, including transcoding by proxies and adaptive resource management.

system-level energy saving techniques, such as energy-aware adaptation, variable-speed processor scheduling, energy-fair ad hoc networking, and energy-sensitive task and memory management.

location sensitivity, including location sensing and location-aware system behavior.

mobile networking, including Mobile IP, ad hoc protocols, and techniques for improving

 

本科阶段的专业是软件工程，可是看完下面介绍觉得跟学了四年也不知道软件工程个所以然来一样感觉，太抽象的东西。

2.Software engineering

Software engineering entails making decisions under constraints of limited time, knowledge, and resources.

Software engineering research is concerned with improving our ability to systematically and predictably analyze and develop sophisticated software that must satisfy complex, ill-specified requirements and that must evolve during its lifetime.

 

大三上课的时候感觉对安全学还有些兴趣，可以考虑继续研究下去：

3.Computer security

computer security is concerned with protecting computers and networks from misuse and interference.

Research Thrusts:

    Cryptography

    Formal Methods

    Software Security

    Intrusion detection

    Network Security Data networks

    Security and Mobile Computing

 

也是上课时感觉网络学得不算差，也算是个方向

4.networking

    1 Internet Measurement and Measurement-Driven Protocol Design

    2 Next Generation Network and Protocol Architecture

    3 Self-Managing Wireless Networks

    4 Protocol Design

 

华工的网格计算做得不错，可是我也没研究过，只是这个方向也可以选择

5.Large-Scale Distributed Systems

The research is organized in four categories: data centers, information retrieval, peer-to-peer systems, and foundations.

 

CMU上的研究部门研究下来也只有这5个比较感兴趣，或许就在这5个内定几个方向吧。只是虽然说有所了解，可是依旧需要多读些论文来看这几个方向中的研究内容。

[url]http://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/research/index.html[/url]