"How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab" is another nice resource: <a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/mit.research.how.to.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/mit.research.h...</a><p>I remember finding the parts not specific to the AI Lab applicable to my (academic) research.