Introduction to Graduate Studies

CS 7001 Fall 1999

General Information

• Description: This course serves as an orientation to graduate life for a PhD candidate in the College of Computing.
• Goals:
  • Gain familiarity with research topics in the College of Computing.
  • Learn some technical skills to serve you in a research career.
  • Learn how to cope with life as a graduate student.
  • Have some fun along the way.
• Meeting Time: MWF 2:05-2:55 pm
• Meeting Place: CCB 101

Quick access to class materials

• Access captured lecture notes, courtesy of Classroom 2000. Not sure how much this service will be used for this particular class.
• Jump to the syllabus of lecture topics, which will be in flux initially.
• Overview of the class projects. to be managed by TA
• Useful Web resources, some of which will be discussed in class.
• How to create a personal web page on the CoC server.
• Here's a link to the git.cc.class.cs7001 newsgroup, a good place for general announcements and discussions about topics of interest to the class.
• Here's a list of the grad seminars that have already been planned. Use the class CoWeb pages to suggest or discuss other possibilities. If you are having trouble with the CoWeb send mail here for a fairly quick response.
• Want to meet your classmates? Here's a list of your peers and their web pages.

Instructor

Dr. Gregory D. Abowd

• Office: 380 Centennial Research Building (CRB)
• Phone: 404-894-7512
• Email: abowd@cc.gatech.edu
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:30-10:30 am 380 CRB (or by appointment)

Teaching Assistant

Don Allison

• Office: 388 Centennial Research Building (CRB)
• Phone: 404-894-5104
• Email: don@cc.gatech.edu
• Office Hours: by appointment

Syllabus

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Projects
1	8/23	Introduction	Previous classes
	8/25	Communication Skills Idris Hsi
	8/27	Reviewing the PhD program	Ph.D. Program Information
2	8/30	GVU Center (Director Jarek Rossignac)		Overview
	9/1	CoC (Dean Peter Freeman) GTWI/BTC (Director Nikil Jayant)
	9/3	EduTech
3	9/6	Labor Day	NO CLASS
	9/8	Using the library Julie Yang meet at library
	9/10	Using the library Julie Yang
Meet the Faculty
4	9/13	Faculty Panel: What is research?		Identify Project 1
	9/15	Amy Bruckman Aaron Bobcik
	9/17	Mark Guzdial John Stasko
5	9/20	Chris Atkeson Colin Potts
	9/22	Thad Starner Gregory Abowd
	9/24	Blaine Burnham Larry Hodges
6	9/27	Student panel
	9/29	Sven Koenig Blair MacIntyre
	10/1	Writing and Fellowships Amanda Gable		Project 1 due
7	10/4	Janet Kolodner 5-minute madness
	10/6	Beth Mynatt more 5-minute madness
	10/8	Leo Mark Irfan Essa	Leo Mark presentation
8	10/11	Karsten Schwan	Karsten Schwan presentation	Identify Project 2
	10/13	Calton Pu Ling Liu
	10/15	Kishore Ramachandran Mustaque Ahamad
9	10/18	Holiday	NO CLASS
	10/20	Ken Mackenzie Richard Fujimoto
	10/22	Jessica Hodgins Greg Turk
10	10/25	Technical Writing Jeff Donnell and Amanda Gable
	10/27	Spencer Rugaber How to review a paper
	10/29	H. Venkateswaran
11	11/1	Area advisement Learning Sciences and Technology Database Systems Software Engineering HCI
	11/3	Area advisement Networking Computer Architecture Systems Graphics and Visualization	Networking Area Info
	11/5	Ron Arkin Mary Jean Harrold		Project 2 due
12	11/8	Public speaking Beth Plale
	11/10	Technical writing follow-up
	11/12	Ellen Zegura 5-minute madness
13	11/15	Time and Stress Management Idris Hsi	Powerpoint'97	Identify Project 3
	11/17	Ashok Goel 5-minute madness
	11/19	5-minute madness
14	11/22	Student panel
	11/24	student meetings
	11/26	Holiday	NO CLASS
15	11/29	interim advisors
	12/1	student meetings
	12/3	5-minute madness		Project 3 due
16	12/6	student meetings
	12/8	student meetings
	12/10	student meetings