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Date
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Topic |
Readings or other Preparation |
Items Due
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23-Jan |
Re-Intro; Internships and Summers; Experiences to Get |
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30-Jan |
Cancelled due to Flood |
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6-Feb |
Networking: Building a Professional Network |
Read:
Networking on the Network and
Demystifying Networking While in Graduate School |
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13-Feb |
Research Questions: Towards
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Read:
http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/menus.htm
Bring 2 copies of your research questions to class with you. |
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20-Feb |
Guest: Prof. John Riedl
The Social Web |
Read: He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia at
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240698. |
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27-Feb |
Guest: Prof. Arindam Banerjee |
Read: TBA |
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6-Mar |
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13-Mar |
Session with CS PhD Graduates in industry
Rob Cooley, Alex Safonov, Jeff Thompson, Mike Whalen
and possibly others |
none |
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20-Mar |
Spring Break |
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27-Mar |
Guest: (to be confirmed) |
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3-Apr |
Writing a Proposal |
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10-Apr |
Guest: Prof. Victoria Interrante
Data and Information Visualization |
Read: G. Robertson et al., Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization. IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14, 6 (Nov.
2008), 1325-1332.
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17-Apr |
Guest: Prof. Ray Kuang
Understanding Proteins: Computational
analysis of the primary molecules of life |
Read: Prediction of protein function from protein sequence and
structure by
James C. Whisstock and Arthur M. Lesk |
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24-Apr |
Guest: Prof. Gopalan Nadathur
Programming Languages |
Read: An Axiomatic Basis for
Computer Programming by C.A.R. Hoare; please also look at Writing Correct Programs a
Programming Pearls column by Jon Bentley.
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1-May |
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8-May |
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