Introduction to Graduate Studies

CS 7001 Fall 2000


General Information

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Instructor

Dr. Gregory D. Abowd


Teaching Assistant

Anind Dey


Syllabus

Information in this syllabus will change as the term progresses. Lectures relevant to PhD orientation are marked in RED. Lectures relevant for graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training are written in GREEN. GTA lectures are organized by Idris Hsi. cancelled
Week  Date  Topic  Reference material  Projects 
8/21  Introduction
8/23  Intro to the GTA Workshop 
and GTA Orientation 
8/25  Grading philosophy
8/28  Reviewing the PhD program Ph.D. Program Information
8/30  Developing grading criteria
9/1  Communication skills
9/4  HOLIDAY: 
Labor Day 
NO CLASS 
9/6  Panel: 
Academic Integrity
9/8  Learning strategies Project 1 defined
9/11  Assisted problem solving
Meet the Faculty
9/13  Faculty Panel: 
What is research?
9/15  Student Panel: 
What I wish they had told me 
9/18  Peter Freeman (Dean) 
Andre Dos Santos (Systems)
9/20  Motivating the students
9/22  Jim Xu (Networking) 
9/25  Difficult TA issues
9/27  Yannis Smaragdakis (Programming Languages)
Olin Shivers (Programming Languages) 
9/29  Andrzej Szymczak (Graphics) 
Santosh Pande (Systems) 
Project 1 due 
10/2  Time and stress management
10/4  Writing Applications for Fellowships
Amanda Gable
10/6  Beth Mynatt (HCI) 
Blair MacIntyre (HCI) 
Project 2 defined 
10/9  Irfan Essa (Intelligent Systems) 
Thad Starner (Intelligent Systems) 
10/11  Mary Jean Harrold (Software Engineering) 
Gregory Abowd (SE and HCI)
10/13  John Stasko (HCI, Info Visualization) 
10/16  Aaron Bobick (Intelligent Systems) 
10/18  Teaching for diverse populations
10/20  Chris Shaw (Virtual Reality) 
Amy Bruckman (LST) 
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)
11/1  Leo Mark (Databases) 
Edward Omiecinski (Databases) 
Sham Navathe (Databses)
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
13  11/13  Cognitive Science 
Janet Kolodner
11/15  Syllabus design and course planning
11/17  Kishore Ramachandran (Systems) 
Richard Fujimoto (Systems)
14  11/20  cancelled
11/22 
11/24  Holiday (Thanksgiving)  NO CLASS 
15  11/27  Mostafa Ammar (Networking) 
Ellen Zegura (Networking)
11/29  Mark Guzdial (LST) 
Jarek Rossignac (Graphics)
12/1  Course postmortem  Project 3 due
16  12/4  Ken MacKenzie (Systems) 
Mustaque Ahamad (Systems) 
12/6  Student Panel
12/8  Feedback


Last modified: Thu Oct 19 14:05:33 EDT 2000