CS/IT Seminar Research Weekly Syllabus:
| Week / Date | Topic / Activity |
Course Overview, Student Introductions, Instructor Expectations (Work on something which interests you, public update each week), Suggest/choose topics of the week (email suggestions to instructor) |
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| Discussion: Juniata's Computer
Science and Technology Periodicals, and evaluation of web-sites. Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - presentation of technical article must happen by Tues 13.Oct (outline of this presentation, and the article being presented, must be handed in on the Monday before the presentation) - written progress report due Fri 16.Oct, 3-5 pages, upload in Moodle - consider choice of "advisor" and "reader(s)" |
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| Discussion: Randy
Pausch's Last Lecture, Transcript
of the Last Lecture Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - presentation of technical article must happen by Tues 13.Oct (outline of this presentation, and the article being presented, must be handed in on the Monday before the presentation) - written progress report due Fri 16.Oct, 3-5 pages, upload in Moodle - consider choice of "advisor" and "reader(s)" |
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Discussion: "Describe the Wall," in 5 min. vs. 60 min, then Short Attention Span Theater, or How do you get your message across? Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Multi-Tasking While Watching Sports, "these students are walking Spam filters", Internet Searching may boost the brain Seminar student deliverables: |
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Discussion: Social Networking, Facebook and Grades, convened by Prof. Kruse Seminar student deliverables: |
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| Discussion: convened by Carly Thomas http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/15/BUHI19NM8Q.DTL&type=tech http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2249829/first-cyber-security-turns-heat http://www.crn.com/security/220000395;jsessionid=QAMEJ1FSW3UB1QE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle - the student convening seminar next week provides articles Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - presentation of technical article must happen by Tues 13.Oct (outline of this presentation, and the article being presented, must be handed in on the Monday before the presentation) - written progress report due Fri 16.Oct, 3-5 pages, upload in Moodle |
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| Discussion: convened by Noah Denton Machine Learning Bee Brain Go challenge Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle - the student convening seminar next week provides articles Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - presentation of technical article must happen by Tues 13.Oct (outline of this presentation, and the article being presented, must be handed in on the Monday before the presentation) - written progress report due Fri 16.Oct, 3-5 pages, upload in Moodle |
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Discussion: convened by Greg Kilbride |
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| Fall Break | |
| Discussion: convened by Martin Cech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsalpQyct5U http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/04/why-do-most-computer-users-do.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16891-innovation-the-mobile-future-of-the-keyboard.html Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle - draft research proposal due Tues 24.Nov - proposal presentation on Tues 01.Dec - final research proposal due Fri 11.Dec Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - continue research (first draft due Tues 01.Dec and final draft due Fri 11.Dec) |
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| Discussion: Critical reading of a peer-reviewed journal
article Automatic Forensic Face Recognition from Digital Images Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle - draft research proposal due Tues 24.Nov - proposal presentation on Tues 01.Dec - final research proposal due Fri 11.Dec Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - continue research (first draft due Tues 01.Dec and final draft due Fri 11.Dec) |
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| Discussion: Critical reading of a peer-reviewed journal
article Machine Learning in Data Mining Seminar student deliverables: - upload weekly journal/reflections in Moodle - draft research proposal due Tues 24.Nov - proposal presentation on Tues 08.Dec - final research proposal due Fri 11.Dec Research student deliverables: - upload weekly time accounting in Moodle - continue research (first draft due Tues 01.Dec and final draft due Fri 11.Dec) |
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Discussion: Things You Might Find Helpful (An incomplete
list I've compiled "the hard way":
Portfolios [samples?], Thank-yous, Eye-contact,
No multi-tasking during meetings, Etiquette, Dress, "Cocktail Party"
Summary of interests, Memorize the names of everyone you meet during an
interview and work these into your discussions...) Also, from last week: Monitoring
Infrastructure, Online
Learning |
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| Class Cancelled Seminar students must turn in the draft of their research proposal by 2:30pm, Tues 24.Nov |
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Rough
Draft Feedback - individual meetings |
Seminar
and Resarch Presentations: |