Note: Without the items below being complete, you will receive a grade of incomplete (I), and will need to register for the course in Fall quarter.
Deliverables, due Monday of Week 10:
An email to Prof. Zanibbi from your faculty advisor, indicating
acceptance of your final pre-proposal.
A five-minute presentation of your pre-proposal, and submission
of your final pre-proposal through MyCourses.
Email the URL for a simple project/thesis web page the instructor. Examples are provided under the "Pre-proposals" link above. The web page should minimally provide the working title for your project or thesis, with a brief description (one paragraph), and a link to your final pre-proposal document. Create the web page in your ~/public_html directory on the CS system.
Week 9 (Peer Review #2)
Submit an updated pre-proposal through MyCourses, taking the feedback from your presentation, the instructor, and your project/thesis advisor into account.
Bring a printed copy of your pre-proposal to class. We will have a second peer-review in-class.
Add one paper to your annotated bibliography, and submit the updated document through MyCourses.
Read Zobel Ch. 6, on using Graphs and Figures in technical writing.
NOTE: you are welcome to remove the headings from your pre-proposal. All of the components described by the headings should be present, but you can now organize things however you and your advisor feel is best.
Our final reading for the quarter is on using mathematical notation (Ch. 7 of Zobel).
Week 8
Submit an updated pre-proposal through MyCourses, taking the feedback from your peer reviewer, the instructor, and your project/thesis advisor into account.
All students should prepare a 4-minute presentation of your pre-proposal, for presention in-class. Submit your slides through MyCourses.
Add one paper to your annotated bibliography, and submit the updated document through MyCourses.
Read Zobel Ch. 6, on using Graphs and Figures in technical writing.
Week 7
Add one paper to your annotated bibliography (indicating which paper is new), and submit it through MyCourses.
Create a first draft for your project/thesis pre-proposal using the provided LaTeX template.Bring a printed copy to class: we will be peer-evaluating each others' pre-proposal drafts in-class.
Get feedback from your advisor about your pre-proposal draft before class. Make sure that you are clear about the audience for the current draft (students in the class).
Assigned Reading: Writing research papers/documents (Ch. 9, pp. 137-155)
Week 6
Students who have not found an advisor should find one as soon as possible.
Add two papers to your annotated bibliography, and submit the updated document through MyCourses.
We will discuss material from the assigned reading on defining and describing algorithms (Ch. 7 if Zobel).
Students with last names starting with A through K:
Prepare a three minute presentation summarizing the hypothesis in one of the papers you read this week, the experimental results, and whether you agree about how this outcome confirms or refutes the hypothesis presented in the paper.
Students with last names starting with L through Z:
Prepare a two-page summary of one of the research papers you read this week. Summarize a paper in which you can identify a hypothesis, and an experiment used to test the hypothesis. Comment on the hypothesis, the experiment, and discuss whether you agree with the authors regarding their hypothesis being confirmed or refuted by the experimental outcome.
Bring a printed copy to class.
Week 5
Add two papers to your annotated bibliography, and submit the updated document through MyCourses.
We will discuss material from the assigned reading on experiments (remainder of Ch. 11).
Students with last names starting with A through K:
Prepare a two-page summary of one of the research papers you read this week. Summarize a paper in which you can identify a hypothesis, and an experiment used to test the hypothesis. Comment on the hypothesis, the experiment, and discuss whether you agree with the authors regarding their hypothesis being confirmed or refuted by the experimental outcome.
Bring a printed copy to class.
Students with last names starting with L through Z:
Prepare a three minute presentation summarizing the hypothesis in one of the papers you read this week, the experimental results, and whether you agree about how this outcome confirms or refutes the hypothesis presented in the paper.
Week 4
Add two papers to your annotated bibliography,
and submit the
updated document through MyCourses.
Read Zobel material on experiments, pp. 185-197, as well as
the paper "Should Computer Scientists Experiment More?," which is
avaiable under "Content" on MyCourses. We will discuss these in class.
Students with last names starting with A through K:
Prepare a 3 minute presentation for one of the two research papers that you added to your bibliography this week.
Submit your presentation slides through MyCourses.
Students with last names starting with L through Z:
Prepare a two-page summary of one of the research papers you read this week. Submit this through MyCourses, and bring a printed copy to class.
Meet with faculty to discuss possible
research problems for your project/thesis, and related literature.
Read Zobel material on Hypotheses and Research Areas (169-182),
and come to class with questions and comments for our discussion.
Add two papers to your annotated bibliography related to your
research area, and submit the
updated document through MyCourses. Keep the papers in the order that you
read them.
Students with last names starting with B through K:
Prepare a maximum two-page summary of one of the research papers from this week. Submit this through MyCourses, and bring a printed copy to class.
Students with last names starting with L through Z:
Prepare a 3 minute presentation summarizing one of the two research papers that you added to your annotated bibliography this week.
Submit your presentation slides through MyCourses.
Week 2
Read Zobel text material on 'Doing Research' (p. 157-169)
Submit your first annotated bibliography through the dropbox for Week 2 in MyCourses, for a paper published in 2011
or 2012 from
a leading international
conference in your area of interest.
Use bibtex to produce a .pdf file
containing the reference and your comments about it (about one paragraph in length).
An example annotated bibliography in LaTeX is provided under 'Content' on myCourses.
Prepare a five minute presentation summarizing your research
interests, and identify two faculty members in the Computer Science Department
working on related problems. For each faculty member provide:
The specific research problems that they work on.
A citation for one of their recent research papers, along with
a 1-2 sentence summary of the paper abstract.
Submit your presentation slides as a .pdf, .zip archive for a keynote file, or .ppt file through myCourses (dropbox for Week 2 - link above)
