Organizer:     Professor Diane Litman    Offices: 5105 Sennott Sq; 741 LRDC     Email: litman -at- cs.pitt.edu     Phone: 412-624-8838 |
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This course introduces first year graduate students to research being conducted in the Computer Science Department. The course will also introduce students to the research process in general. All first year Ph.D. students are required to take this course. Masters students are welcome, since the course is open to all Computer Science graduate students, but it does not count towards the MS degree.
Grading:
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1 | 8/26 (Tue) | Administrivia and Introduction [Notes] | - | |
2 | 8/28 (Thu) | Paper Reading [Notes] |
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3 | 9/2 (Tue) | Paper Reviewing [Notes] |
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4 | 9/4 (Thu) | No Class | - | |
5 | 9/9 (Tue) | Scripting, plotting, LaTeX [Notes] (Student Lecturer: Fan Zhang) |
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6 | 9/11 (Thu) | Department computing resources, SVN, Condor, etc. [Notes] (Student Lecturer: Wencan Luo) |
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7 | 9/16 (Tue) | Giving a research talk [Notes] [talk version1 (pptx), talk version2 (pptx)] |
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8 | 9/18 (Thu) | Peer Review Software [Notes] (Student Lecturer: Huy Nguyen) |
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9 | 9/23 (Tue) | Research Integrity (Faculty Lecturer: Prof. Bob Daley) |
The following must be read
before lecture:
NEW! Links from Prof. Daley's presentation |
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10 | 9/25 (Thu) | Student Presentations I (20 minutes each)
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11 | 9/30 (Tue) | Student Presentations II
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12 | 10/2 (Thu) | Student Presentations III
Discussion of presentations with Prof. Litman |
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13 | 10/7 (Tue) | Professor Zhang | ||
14 | 10/9 (Thu) | Professor Chang | doc
NOTE - class will be from 1:40-2:20 today |
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- | 10/14 (Tue) | Fall Break | - | |
15 | 10/16 (Thu) | Professor Childers | ||
16 | 10/21 (Tue) | Professor Pruhs | ||
17 | 10/22 (We) 3-4:15pm SENSQ 6329 |
Professor Hauskrecht | pdf
NOTE - class will be moved to WEDNESDAY 10/22 3-4:15 (the department colloquium time) in SENSQ 6329 | |
18 | 10/28 (Tue) | Professor Hwa | pdf
Course Project Assigned (pdf) |
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19 | 10/30 (Thu) | Professor Kovashka | ||
20 | 11/4 (Tue) | Professor Lange | - | |
21 | 11/6 (Thu) | Professor Mosse' | ||
22 | 11/11 (Tue) | Professor Litman | ||
23 | 11/13 (Thu) | Professor Melhem | ||
24 | 11/18 (Tue) | Professor Lee | ||
25 | 11/20 (Thu) | Professors Chrysanthis-Labrinidis | ||
26 | 11/25 (Tue) | Professor Wang | ||
- | 11/27 (Thu) | Thanksgiving Break | - | |
27 | 12/2 (Tue) | Professor Wiebe | ||
28 | 12/4 (Thu) | Professor Ahn | ||
29 | 12/9 (Tue) | Professor Znati | pdf
DUE: Course Project |
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30 | 12/11 (Thu) | No more professors, so no class | - |