You must also study these pages and other the web pages
found by following links at the top of the page.
Course Information
Catalog Description
A series of weekly seminars covering a wide range of computer science topics and formats including presentations from industry and university personnel, and students regarding projects and research work.
Graded
credit/no credit.
Prerequisite
completion of all required 300-level computer science courses for the B.S.
in Computer Science degree.
(2 units).
Objectives
At the end of this class you should be more practiced in carrying out
research, presenting it, and writing reports on it.
Why should I do this class?
All computer professionals have to spend part of their time
- Researching a new topic
- Presenting it to colleagues and management
- Writing reports
Your career success will depend on the skills you develop in the above
areas -- especially as you are promoted, pursue a graduate
degree, or create your own company.
Class Meetings
We meet every Wednesday at 12 including the final exam meeting.
When there is a holiday on a Wednesday we make it up on an
extra Monday at the end of the quarter.
Click this link
[ schedule.html ]
for details -- which may change as the course progresses.
Work Load
If you are good at digging out knowledge, reading, writing, and presenting
this class should be easy and fun. If not you will
have to work harder. For example: written work must be in good
English and your work
must not contain other people's stuff without explicit
acknowledgment.
Reading
There is no required text but I strongly suggest you study
[ text.html ]
before you do your next job interview.
However, you are required to use library resources
[ 02.html ]
to research a topic that interests you and make a presentation on it.
Participate in Presentations and Lectures
Be prompt or lose points! Be polite... or lose points
Make a Presentation
You will have a maximum of
20 minutes+10 minutes for questions. You need to cover at least:
Who I am.
What I wanted to know.
What I read (properly formatted citations).
What I learned.
Was it worth it?
The presentation should have some kind of audio-visual aids.
For example: writing on the chalk board or using the
electronic equipment in the classroom.
(citations): A citation enables your audience to find the paper/book that you
are talking or writing about. It lists
- Authors' Names
- Title
- Journal/magazine name+volume+number+(month year)+pages
- URL (if any)
The audience and the teacher will independently and anonymously give your
presentation a score from 0 to 9. The highest scoring presentations will
win a prize.
Practicing and improving short written assignments.
You must summarize your presentation into written form:
[ Format of Review ]
and use the
[ contact.html ]
form to send it to me.
The accepted assignments will be published on the WWW as part
of this web site. Some relevant book reports will be integrated,
with credit to you, into my web site.
No Plagiarism
Notice that if you use any graphics, text, or formulas from another source
you must say where it came from.
Grading
See
[ Catalog Entry ]
above. I won't be following my standard grading scheme. Instead I have
created a series of criteria that you need to meet to earn credit:
- Participate in 80% of the classes(arrive on time, take part, stay until the end)
[note2].
- Make at least one acceptable presentation to the class.
- Submit one acceptable written report/review (note1).
- Turn up for the final.
(note1): If your written report is not accepted you
will have to improve it and try again.
(note2): You can make up a missing class by participating in a department
seminar and giving me a written (one page max) report on the seminar. These
seminars are listed
[ ../seminar/ ]
on the web and will be announced on this web site.
Make up work
Attending department seminars and graduate student presentations
can be used to make up for deficiencies.
Examinations
There will no examinations. But you must still attend the
final meeting to earn credit for the course. You may also get a
fabulous prize.
- The audience award for the best presentation.
- The best report.
Summary of Assigned work
- First you pick a topic and research it in the professional Digital
Libraries.
- Then you present the result of your research.
- You then prepare a written review of papers you've
read to a standard acceptable to the teacher.
- You may have to do it again if you don't earn credit for the
review.
Note that you write the review/report after making a presentation.
The presentation should have audio-visual aids but the written review
does not.
Note: I will be publishing your reviews.
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Format of Review
You must submit it as plain text by using
[ contact.html ]
form.
Here is the syntax of the review
Authors' Names
Title
Journal/magazine name+volume+number+(month year)+pages
URL (if any)
What type of resource is it: pick one or two words from the list below.
Some keywords describing the content.
A set of bullet points describing the content.
Or you can use the [Submit] link to
[ hole.html ]
and the preset format. This page should let you see how it will
appear in my website before you submit it.
Type of Resource
Advert, anecdote, article, polemic, essay, theory, experience, experiment,
poll, survey of literature, demonstration, ...
The
bullet points
should be short and describe (1) the most important
ideas and (2) your opinions about the paper/article/book. Try to write no more
than 250 words!
Support
- Come and see me in my office: JBH339
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30pm to 3:40pm.
- Send me EMail using the [Contact] button above.
- Check out my
[ ../plan.html ]
and request a meeting 24 hours in advance.
- Ask any any CSE faculty.
- Ask a reference librarian!