CS 2001: RESEARCH TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Instructor	Meeting Times
Dr. Taieb Znati Office: 6137 Sennott Square Email: znati@cs.pitt.edu	MW 1:00 - 2:15 PM 6516 SENSQ

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Announcements

• [8/27] Welcome to CS 2001! Please check this web page for important announcements.
• University Calendar

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Course Description

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:

• Attendance: 50%
• Paper reviews: 25%
• Presentation: 10%
• Mini-project: 15%

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Lecture and Talk Schedule

Class		Topics		Resources
1	08/27	Introduction [Notes]		Course Objectives and Administrivia
2	08/29	Paper Reading [Notes]		S. Keshav, How to Read a Paper, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication February 2016 Michael J. Hanson and Dylan J. McNamee, Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology Philip W. L. Fong, How to Read a CS Research Paper, July 2004 William G. Griswold, How to Read an Engineering Research Paper Griswold's Paper Comprehension Template
3	09/03	Labor Day - University is Closed
4	09/5	Paper Reviewing [Notes]		William Strunk, Jr. The Elements of Style, 1918 Mark Hill and Kathryn S. McKinley, Notes on Constructive and Positive Reviewing, May 2005 Alan Jay Smith, The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer 23(4), April 1990 Timothy Roscoe, Writing reviews for systems conferences, March 2007
5	09/10	Giving a research talk [Notes]		Michael Ernst, Giving a technical presentation Jonathan Shewchuk, Giving an Academic Talk Charles Van Loan, The Short Talk
6	09/19	Reading and Reviewing Discussion and Wrap-up		Review 1 - How to Share a Secret, A. Shamir Review 2 - OceanStore: An Architecture for Global Scale, J. Kubiatowicz Discussion
7	09/24	Scripting, plotting, LaTeX		· LaTeX Distributions o Linux - TeX Live, Mac OSX - MacTeX o Windows - MiKTeX o Overleaf · GNUPlot
8	09/26	Department Computing Resources		[Notes]
9	10/01	GitHub [Notes]		· Version Control with Subversion, B. Collins-Sussman, B. W. Fitzpatrick, and C. M. Pilato, · GitHub and GitHub Resources · GitHub: Making Your Code Citable
10	10/3 (W)	Dr. Wonsun Ahn
11	10/08 (M)	Research Integrity		· The following must be read before lecture · On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research · Honor in Science
12	10/10 (W)	Dr. Panos Chrysanthis and Dr. Alex Labrinidis
13	10/16 (T)	Dr. Kirk Pruhs
14	10/17 (W)	Dr. Rebecca Hwa
15	10/22 (M)	Dr. Taieb Znati
16	10/24 (W)	Dr. Jack Lange
17	10/29 (M)	Dr. Bruce Childers
18	10/31 (W)	Dr. Adam Lee
19	11/05 (M)	Dr. Taieb Znati
20	11/07 (W)	Dr. Rami Melhem
21	11/12 (M)	Dr. Daniel Mosse
22	11/14 (W)	Dr. Adriana Kovashka
23	11/19 (M)	Dr. Diane Litman
24	11/21	Thanksgiving Holiday
25	11/26	Student Presentation I	1:00-1:30	Group I	Topic
			1:30-1:45	Discussion
			1:45-2:15	Group II	Topic
			2:15-2:30	Discussion
26	11/28	Student Presentation II	1:00-1:30	Group III	Topic
			1:30-1:45	Discussion
			1:45-2:15	Group IV	Topic
			2:15-2:30	Discussion
27	12/3	Project Submission and Discussion
28	12/5	Wrap – Lessons Learnt, Moving Forward