Useful Advice on Research and Writing:

• A simple (incomplete) checklist for writing papers, by Sachin Sapatnekar  @ University of Minnesota

• How to write a good CVPR submission[pdf], by Bill Freeman @ MIT-CSAIL

• Advice on Research and Writing for Computer Scientists, in http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html

• How to write a great research paper [ppt], by Simon Peyton Jones @ Microsoft Research at Cambridge

• On Writing High Quality Technical Papers [ppt], by Hongjun Lu @ HKUST

• Coping with the questions of writing and submission [pdf], by Jianming Xu (徐剑明) @ USTC

• Some writing tips for a research paper [.rar]

• Writing papers, Making Presentations, and Citing References Correctly [pdf], by Xiaohong Guan (管晓宏) @ Tsinghua University

• The Building Blocks of Writing [ppt]

• Research and Publications: A Personal Perspective [ppt], by Bo Li @ HKUST

• The Most Common Habits for Chinese Researchers [pdf], by Felicia Brittman

• Checklist to use before your submission [pdf]

• The Researchers' Bible [pdf], by Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe and Gordon Plotkin @ University of Edinburgh

• How to read, write, present papers [ppt], by Nitin H. Vaidya @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• How to write a good English paper [pdf], by Yaoqi Zhou @ Indiana University

• 做好自己文章的审稿人[pdf]

• How to read a paper [pdf], by S. Keshav @ University of Waterloo

DB Groups:

People in Spatiotemporal Database Area:

• Dr. Christian S.Jensen   [Aalborg University, Denmark]
  Dr. Michael H. Böhlen
  　
• Prof. Ralf Hartmut Güting [Hagen University, Germany]
  Dr. Martin Erwig
  　
• Dr. Markus Schneider [University of Florida, USA]
• Prof. Jan Chomicki [Buffalo University, USA]
• Prof. Max J. Egenhofer [Maine University, USA]
• Prof. Richard T. Snodgrass [Arizona University, USA]
• Prof. Peter Revesz [University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA]
• Dr. Ouri Wolfson [University of Illinois of Chicago, USA]
  　
• Dr. Dieter Pfoser [Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece]
  Dr. Nectaria Tryfona
  　
• Dr. Nikos A. Lorentzos [Agricultural University of Athens, Greece ]
• Prof. Timos Sellis [National Technical University of Athens, Greece]
• Dr.Yannis Theodoridis [University of Piraeus, Greece]
• Prof.Yannis Manolopoulos [Aristotle University, Greece]
  　
• Dr. Andrew U. Frank [Technical University of Vienna, Austria]
  Dr. Thomas Bittner
  　
• Dr. Stephane Grumbach [INRIA, France]
  Dr. Michel Scholl
  　
• Dr. Dimitris Papadias [HongKong University of Science and Technology, China]
• Dr. Yufei TAO [Chinese University of Hong Kong, China]
• Prof.Xiaofeng Meng [Renmin University of China, China]

People in Flash-based Database Area:

• Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo（郭大维） [National Taiwan Univeristy, China]
• Dr. Li-Pin Chang(张立平)  [National Chiao-Tung University, China]
• Dr. Chia-Lin Yang(杨佳玲) [National Taiwan Univeristy, China]
• Prof. Jianliang Xu (徐建良) [HKBU, China]
  　
• Prof. Sang-Won Lee [Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea]
• Prof. Sam H. Noh [Hongik University, South Korea]
• Dr. Dong-ho Lee [Hanyang University, South Korea]
• Prof. Kern Koh. [Seoul National University, South Korea]
• Dr. Hyojun Kim [Samsung, South Korea]
  　
• Prof. Kyu Ho Park [KAIST, South Korea]
• Prof. Joonwon Lee [KAIST, South Korea]
• Dr. Jin-Soo Kim [KAIST, South Korea]
  　
• Dr. Suman Nath [Microsoft Research, USA]
• Dr.Vijayan Prabhakaran [Microsoft Research, USA]
• Dr. Ioannis Koltsidas [University of Edinburgh, UK]
• Prof. Sivan Toledo [Tel-Aviv University,Italy]
• Prof. Goetz Graefe [HP Lab, USA]