MS Project / Thesis Seminar (4005-893-70)

Assignment 9 - Due November 7

• Final presentations: Each student will give a three-minute presentation summarizing their final pre-proposal (submit both your pre-proposal and presentation through MyCourses)
   
• Important Note: To receive a grade in the course, pre-proposals must be approved by your advisor via an email sent to both Prof. Bischof hpb@cs.rit.edu and me rjb@cs.rit.edu. This must be done by midnight of November 18th (Friday of finals week).

Assignment 8 - Due October 31

• All students need to submit an updated pre-proposal draft before class on Monday October 31.
   
• Read Zobel text on graphs and figures in technical writing Ch. 6. 
• Each student will give an update on their pre-proposal progress in class (1-2 minutes). No slides are required for this presentation but you are free to use them if you like

Assignment 7 - Due October 24

• You may submit updated drafts of your pre-proposal using the "October 24" dropbox on myCourses.
   
• Each student will give an update on their pre-proposal progress in class (1-2 minutes). No slides are required for this presentation but you are free to use them if you like.

Assignment 6 - Due October 17

• You may submit updated drafts of your pre-proposal using the "October 17" dropbox on myCourses.
   
• Read Zobel text algorithms and pseudocode Ch. 7
   
• Each student will give an update on their pre-proposal progress in class (1-2 minutes). No slides are required for this presentation but you are free to use them if you like.

Assignment 5 - Due October 10

• All students need to submit an updated pre-proposal draft before class on Monday October 10.
   
• Read Zobel text Ch. 9 (137-155)
   
• Each student will give an update on their pre-proposal progress in class (1-2 minutes). No slides are required for this presentation but you are free to use them if you like.

Assignment 4 - Due October 3

• Each student will give an update on their pre-proposal progress in class (1-2 minutes). No slides are required for this presentation but you are free to use them if you like.
   
• You may submit updated drafts of your pre-proposal using the "October 3" dropbox on myCourses.
   
• Note: I will be out of town. Prof. Kwon will be facilitating the class meeting.

Assignment 3 - Due September 26

• Read Zobel text on Experimentation (185-197)
   
• Please Note: Students should be actively seeking out faculty with whom to carry out their thesis or project.
   
• Each student will give an update on their pre-proposal progress in class (1-2 minutes). No slides are required for this presentation but you are free to use them if you like.
   
• You may submit updated drafts of your pre-proposal using the "September 26" dropbox on myCourses.

Assignment 2 - Due September 19

• Read Zobel text on Hypotheses and Research Areas (169-182)
   
• On myCourses, submit a rough version of your thesis/project pre-proposal, which must include citations for two research papers related to your research topic. It is highly recommended that you find a survey paper of your research topic; make to sure to check ACM Computing Surveys.
   
• Prepare a (3-4 minute) presentation summarizing the topic and the two papers included in your submitted pre-proposal draft. Submit your slides through myCourses. You will be presenting these slides on September 19.

Assignment 1 - Due September 12

• Read Zobel text material on 'Doing Research' (p. 157-169)
   
• Prepare a short presentation (3-4 minutes) summarizing the research of three faculty members in the Computer Science department (one of them should be your chair if you have one). For each faculty member provide:
  • Their research area
  • The specific research problems that they work on
  • A 1-2 sentence summary of an abstract from one of their research papers

  Submit your presentation slides as a .pdf file through myCourses
  
  You will be presenting this work in class on September 12.