DCS 500 #15541 - Research and Development

Class
Tuesday 11:00-12:00, Core 301A.

Requirements

Short weekly exercises and class participation.

News

• Wed, Dec 22
  Final reports and comments posted.

• Tue, Nov 23
  Final "project".
  Form a group of 3-5 of your classmates.
  Set a 2-hour meeting.
  During that meeting, plan a daylong event, oriented toward graduate students, to show off the activities of the department.
  Document your event in a short powerpoint presentation (e.g., 3 slides), outlining its goals, schedule, participants and rationale.
  Email the powerpoint file to MS by Dec 06 at 7pm.
  One member of each group should be prepared to present the plan in at most four minutes on Dec 07.

• Tue, Nov 9
  Slides posted.

• Thu, Nov 4
  Slides posted.

• Wed, Oct 13
  Slides posted.

• Tue, Sep 28
  Home pages linked.

• Wed, Sep 22
  Lecture slides posted.

• Thu, Sep 9
  First day's slides posted.

• Mon, Sep 6
  This page created.

About this light seminar

This is a meta-seminar about research methods and practice. The idea is to explore and critique the things we do everyday as researchers, to improve our work and our ability to communicate it with others.

Syllabus

• Sep 07
  Introductions.
  Guest speaker: Xiaolei Huang: Mandarin Chinese names.

• Sep 14
  Practice your introductions.
  

• Sep 21
  Making a web page.

  Links:
  Department guide to setting up home pages.
  Department guide to getting pages linked in.
  NCSA guide to HTML - from the people who invented it.
  "The bare bones guide to HTML" - Google's best guess for an html guide.
  Getting started with HTML, at the W3C, by Dave Raggett.

  Homework:
  Prepare a web page. Send email with the link to MS by Monday, Sep 27.
  At class, be prepared to talk about what you did and how you did it.

• Sep 28
  Your home pages:
  • Martin Constantine
  • Yuchi Huang
  • Timothy Edmunds
  • Chan-Su Lee
  • Bethany Leffler
  • Nikita Lytkin
  • Xiaofeng Mi
  • Antonina Mitrofanova
  • Rajat Mittal
  • Kooksang Moon
  • Jacek Rawicki
  • Brian Russell
  • Shinjiro Sueda
  • Rong Xu
  • Zhipeng Zhao

• Oct 05
  Getting the most out of research talks and colloquia.
  Lecture notes.
  A warm-up for:

• Oct 07
  Student research day.
  10:00-12:30 AM
  Lecture hall, first floor Core.

• Oct 12
  Student research day recap.

• Oct 19
  No meeting: MS is teaching in the cognitive science proseminar.
  (If you're interested, it meets 9:30-12:10 in ARC 204.)

• Oct 26
  Rap session: what to do next.

• Nov 02
  Teamwork.
  Further information:
  • Amy C. Edmondson
  • Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

• Nov 09
  Powerpoint and latex.

  Created powerpoint file
  Printer version of powerpoint results
  Latex source
  Latex output
  

• Nov 16
  Assignments and syllabi.
  Guests: Doug DeCarlo and Thu Nguyen

• Nov 23
  Talks.
  Guest: Rich Martin.

• Nov 30
  Special time: 10:30am.
  Special place: Core lecture hall - first floor.
  Special event: Distinguished lecture - Larry Peterson, Princeton.

• Dec 07
  Quals and careers.
  Guests: Kostas Kleisouris, Miguel Mosteiro, Anthony Santella.

  Breakout recap:
  

  • Martin Constantine, Nikita Lytkin, Antonina Mitrofanova, Jacek Rawicki and Rajat Mittal
  • Brian Russell, Bethany Leffler, Wess Workneh and Rong Xu.
  • Yuchi Huang, Chan-su Lee, Kooksang Moon, Xiaofeng Mi and Zhipeng Zhao.
  • Shin Sueda and Tim Edmonds.

Ideas for next time...

• How do you present a paper in a seminar?
• What is a MS thesis?
• What is a PhD defense?
• What kinds of jobs do you get with a PhD? What do professors do?
• How are conferences organized, and how does one play one's part?
• How do you write the introduction to a research paper?
• How do you present results? What discussion? What graphs? Etc.
• How do you write reviews of conference and journal submissions?
• How do you read the reviews you get when you submit?