RIT Department of Computer Science CSCI-788-03C3: Master's Project Colloquium (Fall 2017)

Lecture Room: GOL-3560
Instructor: Prof. Richard Zanibbi ( rxzvcs(at)rit.edu )
Office Hours: Wed 11:15am-1:15pm, Fri. 2:30-3:25pm
Class: Thursdays, 11am-12:20pm

RIT Academic Calendar

Deadlines: presentation slides are due before the start of class. All Milestone deliverables are due to your advisor at the end of the corresponding week (4, 8 or 12). Speak with your advisor about specific submission deadlines.
Readings: Justin Zobel's "Writing for Computer Science" (third edition) is the text for the course.

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Week		Reading	Note
	Milestone I
1	Overview, milestones and reading papers	Chs. 1-3
2	Hypotheses, evidence and writing	Chs. 4-5
3	Experimentation and statistics	Chs 14-15
4	Milestone 1, Part I		Milestone 1 due
5	Milestone 1, Part II
	Milestone II
6	Graphs and figures	Ch. 11	**Career Fair/Interviews Wed.-Thurs.**
7	Math and algorithms	Chs. 9-10
8	Milestone 2, Part I		Milestone 2 due
9	Milestone 2, Part II
	Milestone III
10	Poster preparation and presentation	Ch. 16
11	Preparing the project report	Chs. 13, skim 5-8	(Fri. last day for "W" drop)
12	Milestone 3, Part I		Milestone 3 due
13	(* Thanksgiving; No class *)
14	Milestone 3, Part II
	Poster and Final Deliverables
15	Poster rehearsal
16	(*no class*)		Final Report due, Poster Session
	Report Due: Monday, Dec. 11th, noon (online submission)	Poster Session: Thursday Dec. 14th, 1-3pm (GCCIS Atrium)

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