| Week | Date | Topic | Reference material | Projects | ||||||
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| 1 | 8/21 | Introduction | ||||||||
| 8/23 | Intro to the GTA Workshop
and GTA Orientation |
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| 8/25 | Grading philosophy | |||||||||
| 2 | 8/28 | Reviewing the PhD program | Ph.D. Program Information | |||||||
| 8/30 | Developing grading criteria | |||||||||
| 9/1 | Communication skills | |||||||||
| 3 | 9/4 | HOLIDAY:
Labor Day |
NO CLASS | |||||||
| 9/6 | Panel:
Academic Integrity |
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| 9/8 | Learning strategies | Project 1 defined | ||||||||
| 4 | 9/11 | Assisted problem solving | ||||||||
| Meet the Faculty | ||||||||||
| 9/13 | Faculty Panel:
What is research? |
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| 9/15 | Student Panel:
What I wish they had told me |
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| 5 | 9/18 | Peter Freeman (Dean)
Andre Dos Santos (Systems) |
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| 9/20 | Motivating the students | |||||||||
| 9/22 | Jim Xu (Networking) | |||||||||
| 6 | 9/25 | Difficult TA issues | ||||||||
| 9/27 | Yannis Smaragdakis (Programming Languages)
Olin Shivers (Programming Languages) |
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| 9/29 | Andrzej Szymczak (Graphics)
Santosh Pande (Systems) |
Project 1 due | ||||||||
| 7 | 10/2 | Time and stress management | ||||||||
| 10/4 | Writing Applications for Fellowships
Amanda Gable |
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| 10/6 | Beth Mynatt (HCI)
Blair MacIntyre (HCI) |
Project 2 defined | ||||||||
| 8 | 10/9 | Irfan Essa (Intelligent Systems)
Thad Starner (Intelligent Systems) |
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| 10/11 | Mary Jean Harrold (Software Engineering)
Gregory Abowd (SE and HCI) |
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| 10/13 | John Stasko (HCI, Info Visualization) | |||||||||
| 9 | 10/16 | Aaron Bobick (Intelligent Systems) | ||||||||
| 10/18 | Teaching for diverse populations | |||||||||
| 10/20 | Chris Shaw (Virtual Reality)
Amy Bruckman (LST) |
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| 10 | 10/23 | Midterm recess | NO CLASS | |||||||
| 10/25 | Assignment and exam design | |||||||||
| 10/27 | Bill Ribarsky (Data Visualization) | Project 2 due | ||||||||
| 11 | 10/30 | Spencer Rugaber (Software Engineering)
Colin Potts (Software Engineering) |
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| 11/1 | Leo Mark (Databases)
Edward Omiecinski (Databases) Sham Navathe (Databses) |
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| 11/3 | Greg Turk (Graphics) | Project 3 defined | ||||||||
| 12 | 11/6 | Lecture and talk design | ||||||||
| 11/8 | Lecture and talk presentation | |||||||||
| 11/10 | AI and Robotics faculty:
Ron Arkin Sven Koenig |
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| 13 | 11/13 | Cognitive Science
Janet Kolodner |
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| 11/15 | Syllabus design and course planning | |||||||||
| 11/17 | Kishore Ramachandran (Systems)
Richard Fujimoto (Systems) |
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| 14 | 11/20 | cancelled | ||||||||
| 11/22 | cancelled | |||||||||
| 11/24 | Holiday (Thanksgiving) | NO CLASS | ||||||||
| 15 | 11/27 | Mostafa Ammar (Networking)
Ellen Zegura (Networking) |
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| 11/29 | Mark Guzdial (LST)
Jarek Rossignac (Graphics) |
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| 12/1 | Course postmortem | Project 3 due | ||||||||
| 16 | 12/4 | Ken MacKenzie (Systems)
Mustaque Ahamad (Systems) |
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| 12/6 | Student Panel | |||||||||
| 12/8 | Feedback | |||||||||