How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab

While this guide contains a bit of outdated information,

(from the section on giving a talk: If you must point at the overhead, don't actually touch the transparency since you will make it jerk around.)

there's also a lot of useful content about research and networking

(from the 'Getting Connected' section: When a paper cites something that looks interesting, make a note of it. Keep a log of interesting references. Go to the library every once in a while and look the lot of them up. You can intensively work backward through a ``reference graph'' of citations when you are hot on the trail of an interesting topic.)