CS 5014: Research Methods in Computer Science
Fall 2001

What's New

• 6 December. A password-protected grade summary is now available.

Information, Handouts, Examples, Etc.

• Syllabus
• Course schedule
• Summary of homework assignments.
• A page of useful links and references.
• Comments on reading Jain.

Lecture Notes

• The ``Literature''
  • Intro: what and how?
  • Literature reviews

• Experimental CS
  • Introduction: experimentation, measurement, and performance evaluation in CS research
  • Statistics: summarizing measured data
  • Confidence intervals: comparing systems using sample data
  • Regression: building simple models from sample data
  • Experimental design: getting the most information from the smallest sample.

• Communicating Research Results
  • The marks of good and bad writing
  • Grammar & usage
  • Writing a paper (see also these helpful notes from Dr. Marc Abrams on publishing a paper)
  • Other types of writing
  • Preparing and giving talks