User:Sdudah

In the name of ALLAH, the compassionate, the merciful

Welcome!
My name is Fawzi Sdudah, and I am a new Libyan Wikipedian studying at Queen's University. I enjoy contributing to Wikipedia as I undertake my research. This activity helps me in research itself. It keeps me engaged and inspired. My writing and technical communication skills improve as I contribute. My reading and critical thinking skills also rocket as new horizons are discovered. Therefore I would like to give back.

I have started wikiing since Nov. 2006, but I am a long time citizen of Wikipedia since its beginnings. At this stage I create stubs, that is, articles with minimal content. It is most likely that I would return back to stubs I create to elaborate on. You may notice that my user page needs "some" clean up. In Wikipedia's terminology it is a stub.

Contributions
Here are the articles I have seeded and some that I have contributed to

Math, Science & Engineering
Ordinal optimization, Greedy source, Lin-Kernighan algorithm, K-opt, 3-opt, 2-opt, K-minimum spanning tree, Robust optimization, Successive linear programming, Bilinear program and Multilevel programming

Other
Opportunity Driven Multiple Access, Teaching dossier, Sabbatical, Information Cycle, Trade documentation, CALM M5, Marking scheme, PhotoReading, At-risk students, Engineering education, Canadian Do Not Call List, Imbakbakah (Libyan macaroni), Mock Interview

I have helped in obtaining permission to use Mathematical Programming Glossary in Wikipedia. Other small stuff like resolving links, correcting typos.

Wiktionary
My inroads into Wiktionary!! I have some linguistics interests which hopefully may grow bigger.
 * flaky
 * cucumis.org

Interests
I am interested and working in the area of Wireless Networks. I am also interested in Operations Research in general and Optimizations in particular, and support the copyleft concept. By the way, do you know what Engineering is and what an Engineer does?

My Wikipedia subpages

 * Arabic stuff
 * My Wikipedia Help page
 * Real formatting examples

Misc.

 * How to write mathematics, P.R. Halmos. *Summary is here.


 * List of publications in computer science
 * Computer science
 * Computer engineering

List of publications in mathematics
There is an effort to organize a list of important publications in many areas of science. Such a list captures the major achievements in each field and might be a valuable asset for one trying to learn a new field. The List of publications in computer science is the oldest and most mature list and might show the goal of the lists. The rest of the list need much more contributions. Please try to improve the mathematics related lists:
 * List of publications in mathematics
 * List of publications in statistics
 * List of publications in computer science

Neutral point of view
Wikipedia's editorial policy is the "neutral point of view," often abbreviated "NPOV." This policy says that we accept all the significant viewpoints on an issue. Instead of simply stating one perspective, we try to present all relevant viewpoints without judging them. Our aim is to be informative, not persuasive. Our policy does NOT mean that our articles are expected to be 100% "objective," since in any dispute all sides believe their view to be "true."

It's OK to state opinions in articles, but they must be presented as opinions, not as fact. Also, it's a good idea to attribute these opinions, for example "Supporters of this say that..." or "Notable commentator X believes that..."

You might hear Wikipedians referring to an article as "POV." This is Wikipedia slang for a biased article, or one obviously written from a single perspective. Advertising would fall in this category, as would a political diatribe. In a less extreme case, an article might have "POV" problems if it spends significantly more time discussing one view than another view of equivalent significance, even if each view is presented neutrally.

If you're going to spend time on controversial articles in subjects like religion or politics, it's important that you read the neutral point of view policy page as soon as possible. You should probably also read Staying cool when the editing gets hot. If you're going to spend your time on less emotional subjects like math or video games, you should still read the policies, but it's a less pressing concern. Keep in mind the advice here, and read the full policy if an NPOV issue comes up. See also the NPOV tutorial.

Publishing, Open Publishing and IP

 * Open patent
 * Open content
 * Fair use
 * Fair use, from Cornell
 * Open access publishing
 * Academic publishing
 * Learned society
 * e-print
 * Can Peer Review be better Focused?
 * Open Access
 * Peer review

Academia

 * Academia. Start here...
 * MIT OpenCourseWare
 * Statement of purpose
 * Statement of Purpose at Stanford
 * Grad Schools and Careers
 * *Guides to surviving Computer Science graduate school*
 * Research 101 (Creative Commons)
 * Queen's Electronic Theses/Dissertations (ETD) Resources
 * Useful Graduate Student Resources (Queen's U cs***)
 * Shauna Kelly (M$ Word Master)
 * Technical Writing Handbook (U of T)
 * Teaching Tips (TA ing)
 * Centre for Teaching and Learning at Queen's University

"that brings these authors and their institutions their rewards (employment, promotion, tenure, grants, prizes, prestige)." in Eprints: Electronic Preprints and Postprints, Stevan Harnad.
 * Writer's block
 * Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology
 * LaTeX: LaTeX, LEd, LyX, Discussion about the TeX and LaTeX systems & macros
 * University Administration (Funny/meaningful), Academic Job Descriptions

Ph.D
"GETTING PUBLISHED is important for promotion and tenure in the academic community, and publication can do much to bolster the careers of engineers in industry. Have you ever published a paper in an IEEE transactions journal? [snip]. Some say that one transactions paper can be worth four conference papers in terms of prestige. If you’re already a university professor, transactions publications help you become better known and can lead toward being elected an IEEE Fellow or to receiving other awards and honors." from Tips for Getting A Transactions Article Published
 * The Ph.D Experience, by Mihir Bellare
 * Notes On The PhD Degree
 * Dissertation Writing Tools. For checking later
 * Writing a letter of recommendation
 * Requesting a letter of recommendation
 * Graduate Supervision
 * Guidelines on the Roles and Responsibilities in Graduate Supervision (Queen's University)
 * Advice for researchers and students. Compiled by Michael Ernst
 * TOP TEN SCHOLARSHIP TIPS
 * FINDING SCHOLARSHIPS
 * Problem solving
 * Teaching assistant
 * Thank you letters
 * Cover letter
 * How To Write & Publish a Scientific Paper: 5th Edition by Robert A. Day.
 * The Elements of Style
 * How to write a thesis (Engineering & Science)

"Plagiarism is a growing concern for many organizations, including the IEEE. The number of instances reported in IEEE publications has been rising steadily, with 14 in 2004, 26 in 2005, and 47 in 2006." from The Plagiarism Problem: Now You Can Help BY ANNA BOGDANOWICZ


 * How to Obtain Permission to Reuse IEEE-Copyrighted Material

" The guidelines recognize that it is common in technical publishing for material to be presented at various stages of its evolution. As one example, this can take the form of publishing early ideas in a workshop, more developed work in a conference and fully developed contributions as journal or transactions papers. This publication process is an important means of scientific communication. At the same time, however, the IEEE requires that this evolutionary process be fully referenced by the author." from [ http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Guidelines_Intro.html Introduction to Guidelines on Multiple Submission and Prior Publication]


 * Copy-and-Paste Papers Put Profs on the Offensive BY ANNA BOGDANOWICZ

LESSONS LEARNED ... He notes that conference proceedings have timely and peer-reviewed papers that are not as old as the information found in journals. Also, Google Scholar often takes users to information that is older than papers that members could get directly from IEEE Xplore, because the IEEE does not release its newest material to Google. from How Today's Techies Work BY KATHY KOWALENKO

Search

 * Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
 * One look
 * Google Scholar
 * CiteULike

Last readings, TO-DOs
CertTESOL, CELTA, Teaching English as a foreign language, Translation studies, Translation, Unsolved problems in linguistics, Shettles Method, Medical thermometer, Travian (Multi Player Strategy Game), Collocation, Phraseology, Ministry of Truth, Animation, lighttpd, NLite, Spiritualism (beliefs), Lean manufacturing, Practical Kabbalah, Audio editing,Video editing, Video editing software, Virtual Studio Technology (VST), Team learning, Cooperative learning, School of the Americas, Montessori method
 * journal1
 * journal2

Secondary School

 * ISEE - Independent School Entrance Examination
 * SSAT - Secondary School Admission Test
 * HSPT - High School Placement Test

IQ tests

 * Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
 * Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
 * Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
 * Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Intelligence_tests

New BibTex2Word2007
BibTex2Word2007 is a BibTex to Word 2007 Bibliography (References) Converter based on the awk programming language. Alpha version completed today 3:14 AM, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. So far to this writing, I have never found any tool like this online. That is why I have developed it myself.
 * BibTex2Word2007
 * Gawk for Windows

Also check this if you use JabRef bibliography manager. You can backup selected pdf files by feeding a list of entries in a bibtex file. Useful if you want to send them to your supervisor or a colleague.


 * Download JabRefPDF here


 * Export a list of PDF files using JabRef (my contributed article). Get the trivial layout file from here.