APPENDICES

Tools, setup, and the working vocabulary for this course.

Appendix A

Building Your Research Environment

Git/GitHub, Python · Jupyter, Zotero, Overleaf + ACM/IEEE templates — free, no admin required

The cheapest no-admin path to a full research rig: version control, a Python/Jupyter (or Colab/Codespaces) workspace, a Zotero library, and a LaTeX paper from an ACM or IEEE template — set up from Week 1.
Appendix B

The Researcher's Toolkit

Literature search, Zotero, the comparison matrix, LaTeX templates, BibTeX, citation hygiene

How to search ACM/IEEE/arXiv/Semantic Scholar/Connected Papers, manage sources in Zotero, build a comparison matrix, and format a paper in acmart or IEEEtran without leaking a hallucinated citation.
Appendix C

Using AI in Your Research, Responsibly

LLMs and agents for lit review, coding, and writing — plus the integrity and disclosure rules

What modern AI can and cannot do in the research loop, the venue disclosure policies you must follow, and the line you may not cross: no fabricated data, no hallucinated citations, the human owns every claim.
Appendix D

Glossary

Research-methods, statistics, and AI terms

Hypothesis, ablation, baseline, effect size, p-hacking, reproducibility, RAG, fine-tuning, artifact badge, and the rest of the working vocabulary of a researcher.