Term Papers
Complexity and Computability
ICSG-704/ICSS-481
Spring 2001
Choosing Topic
This quarter I prefer computability oriented papers, though
complexity topics are also fine. You can use our textbook as
the source of ideas. Please, get in touch with me if you
have doubts what constitutes a valid subject.
First step, due April 5
- fix your www homepage (if necessary)
- make a clickable title of your proposed term paper
- write the abstract of your paper in simple html
- include at least two references to the subject
- send me email including URL of your homepage
Second step, April 12
All students have an approved subject of their term paper.
Each student will present the outline to the whole group.
Third step, due May 15
Formatted hardcopy of the paper due.
It's contents has to be posted on the web.
Fourth step, due May 22
Send to spr@cs.rit.edu reviews of all your colleagues' papers.
Send each review in a separate email message,
in plain text (not as an attachment), containing
only the review. The subject line of the message must have the form
i-j, where i is your index, and j is the index
of the paper you are reviewing. I will concatenate all reviews
without mail headers and send them to the authors of the papers.
Presentations
Due to small size of the class, all students will give
oral presentations of their papers during usual meeting time.
About 5 to 10 transparencies are required. Early Volunteers
for the presentations will be very welcome!
List of Subjects, Spring 2001
- 0. Daniel Hill,
The Computability of Immortality.
- 1. Ken Lynch,
Self-Referential Programs and Recursion Theorem.
- 2. Scott McCloskey,
Wet Computing: The Theory and State of DNA Computing.
- 3. Jason Repko,
The Computability of Conscious Thought.
- 4. Michael Stringer,
Godel's Incompleteness Theorem Related to Bach Contrapuntal Constructions.
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