Reading list

Writing

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk

• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory G. Colomb

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Foundations of Computer Networking

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross

• TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens

• The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software, and Networking by Irv Englander

• High Performance Switches and Routers by H. Jonathan Chao and Bin Liu

• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices by George Varghese

Foundations of Algorithms and Optimization

• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H.Cormen, Charles E.Leiserson, Ronald L.Rivest and Clifford Stein

• Randomized Algorithms by Rajeev Motwani and Prabhakar Raghavan

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

• Approximation Algorithms by Vijay V. Vazirani

• The Design of Competitive Online Algorithms via a Primal-Dual Approach by Niv Buchbinder and Joseph (Seffi) Naor

• Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe

• Online Learning and Online Convex Optimization by Shai Shalev-Shwartz