Talking about LaTeX seems smooth enough. I should add a pointer to the LaTeX reference card, and give people some exercise. Maybe a resume?
Spent more time talking about descriptive markup than I expected, but that's fine.
Finished Kung, realizing that the format of that isn't quite right. That would go better as actual slides, rather than a long web page to be scrolled through.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
reflections on the first day, 1/28/08
It looks like it will be a good class.
Kung's overview, although dated from a technical point of view, is a better topic to start with than plagarism! Which is still an important topic.
Spent more time than I expected talking about different publication venues, and how in some fields conferences are more important than journals and v.v.
Didn't get a chance to talk about LaTeX at all, but that too can keep until Wednesday.
Passed around copies of Newman, and told the class to have it read by Monday of next week - I should have said Wednesday, but I'll have a chance to talk about paper summarization anyway.
Speaking of Wednesday, I want to talk some more about Kung's overview, and I'll talk about LaTeX. Then paper summarization, and that will lead to rules regarding source citation and plagarism.
Kung's overview, although dated from a technical point of view, is a better topic to start with than plagarism! Which is still an important topic.
Spent more time than I expected talking about different publication venues, and how in some fields conferences are more important than journals and v.v.
Didn't get a chance to talk about LaTeX at all, but that too can keep until Wednesday.
Passed around copies of Newman, and told the class to have it read by Monday of next week - I should have said Wednesday, but I'll have a chance to talk about paper summarization anyway.
Speaking of Wednesday, I want to talk some more about Kung's overview, and I'll talk about LaTeX. Then paper summarization, and that will lead to rules regarding source citation and plagarism.
Monday, January 28, 2008
So, what are the goals and objectives of this course?
Goals/Objectives:
- Take some of the mystery out of the M.S. and especially Ph.D. process - when people understand the process, they're more comfortable being part of it.
- Give practical advice about how to succeed
- Develop basic skills - literature search, problem definition, research methodologies, written and oral presentation, formulating a research proposal
Friday, January 25, 2008
things added since last time
I taught this course a three years ago! That was Spring 2005. Marie taught it again in 2006, and Krishna in 2007. What did they add? What should I add?
Marie added a mailing list, and a wiki. I've set up a blog.
Marie used some AI papers, as examples for summaries. I might use some different papers.
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/%7Emariedj/papers/advice-summary.html
I like the CV material, and students need to learn about professional networking. So I'll keep the paper by Susan Eggers, Networking and Professional Social Interaction.
Faculty research presentations are a good idea!
The statistical methods should be good. You might argue that there should be more than a week. One Matlab class is fine, but we could do SAS or some other stat package. TBD.
Tim Finin talked about setting up a web presence, and he had other comments in a ppt.
Looking at Krishna's schedule from last year: pointers to IEEE and ACM Computing Surveys.
I want to add links to the ACM DL, citeseer, Google Scholar, Usenix, HBR, maybe others...
Writing Technical Articles (with emphasis on paper in systems and networks), by Henning Schulzrinne.
Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style (Last Updated: Dec 2006 as of March 2007)
There's a lot out there on writing technical papers.
Also, lots of LaTeX stuff.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/helpnet/Being_Grad_Stud/grad_school_CS.html
Marie added a mailing list, and a wiki. I've set up a blog.
Marie used some AI papers, as examples for summaries. I might use some different papers.
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/%7Emariedj/papers/advice-summary.html
I like the CV material, and students need to learn about professional networking. So I'll keep the paper by Susan Eggers, Networking and Professional Social Interaction.
Faculty research presentations are a good idea!
The statistical methods should be good. You might argue that there should be more than a week. One Matlab class is fine, but we could do SAS or some other stat package. TBD.
Tim Finin talked about setting up a web presence, and he had other comments in a ppt.
Looking at Krishna's schedule from last year: pointers to IEEE and ACM Computing Surveys.
I want to add links to the ACM DL, citeseer, Google Scholar, Usenix, HBR, maybe others...
Writing Technical Articles (with emphasis on paper in systems and networks), by Henning Schulzrinne.
Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style (Last Updated: Dec 2006 as of March 2007)
There's a lot out there on writing technical papers.
Also, lots of LaTeX stuff.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/helpnet/Being_Grad_Stud/grad_school_CS.html
Welcome to the Spring 2008 CS 601 blog!
Welcome to the blog for the Spring 2008 offering of CMSC 601!
If you are enrolled in this class, you are welcome to post. If you have taught the course before, you are also welcome to post! You may need to register at blogger.com, but that's easy and free.
The purpose of having a blog is to document the course, in terms of topics that may be discussed, special events like snow days, or comments about how well a particular class session went.
This is one of my favorite courses to teach! And we are all lucky that Marie and Krishna have invested so much in getting the course started. The class looks like it may be a little smaller than in previous years, and that gives us some flexibility in terms of maybe adding new topics this semester.
If you are enrolled in this class, you are welcome to post. If you have taught the course before, you are also welcome to post! You may need to register at blogger.com, but that's easy and free.
The purpose of having a blog is to document the course, in terms of topics that may be discussed, special events like snow days, or comments about how well a particular class session went.
This is one of my favorite courses to teach! And we are all lucky that Marie and Krishna have invested so much in getting the course started. The class looks like it may be a little smaller than in previous years, and that gives us some flexibility in terms of maybe adding new topics this semester.
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