CS5014 Fall 2002
Presentation Topics, Schedule, and Notes

Week 1:

• Tue, Aug 27: Course Intro, what do CS researchers do? (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: 4 websites listed in the notes.
• Thu, Aug 29: How to be a successful research-track graduate student (.ps, .pdf).

Week 2:

• Tue, Sep 3: How to get started on writing, tools of the trade (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Chapters 1-2 of Higham.
• Thu, Sep 5: Contrasted LaTeX and MS Word, and by implication discussed some tool support needed by people who must write major technical documents. Reading Assignment: Chapters 13-14 of Higham.

Week 3: Higham topics

• Tue, Sep 10: Some english hotspots (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Chapters 3-5 of Higham.
• Thu, Sep 12: The main structural features of a technical paper; abstracts (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Chapter 6 of Higham. Assignment 1 due in class.

Week 4: Higham topics

• Tue, Sep 17: More on writing a paper (Higham Chapter 6) (.ps, .pdf).
• Thu, Sep 19: Revising papers (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Chapter 7 of Higham. Assignment 2 due in class.

Week 5:

• Tue, Sep 24: Publishing and Reviewing (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Wilson paper on the links page.
• Thu, Sep 26: Guest Lecture: Jack Carroll

Week 6: The Library and online Resources

• Mon, Sep 30: Assignment 3 due via email to myoung@vt.edu.
• Tue, Oct 1: Library Tour, meet in Newman Library lobby. Assignment 4 due in class.
• Thu, Oct 3: Online Resources, meet in Newman Library PC lab.

Week 7:

• Tue, Oct 8: Reviewing wrapup, thesis defense (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Higham Chapter 9. Assignment 5 due in class.
• Thu, Oct 10: PhD Quals, proposal writing (.ps, .pdf).

Week 8: Proposal writing, Jain topics

• Tue, Oct 15: Proposal writing (.ps, .pdf). Assignment 6 due in class.
• Thu, Oct 17: Proposal writing, performance evaluation (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 1-2

Week 9: Jain topics

• Tue, Oct 22: Performance evaluation (.ps, .pdf). Assignment 8 due in class. Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 3-4.
• Thu, Oct 24: Statistics: Central tendency and dispersion. (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 6, 12.

Week 10: Jain topics

• Tue, Oct 29: Statistics: Hypothesis testing (.ps, .pdf). Assignment 9 due in class. Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 13.
• Thu, Oct 31: Simple linear regression (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 14.

Week 11: Jain topics.

• Tue, Nov 5: Statistics: Regression, ANOVA (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 15. Assignment 11 due in class.
• Thu, Nov 7: Crosstabs, Experimental Design Intro (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 16.

Week 12: Jain topics

• Tue, Nov 12: Experimental Design (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 17-19. Assignment 12 due in class.
• Thu, Nov 14: Experimental Design, Case study (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 20-21.

Week 13:

• Tue, Nov 19: Case study (.ps, .pdf). Assignment 10 due in class.
• Thu, Nov 21: Graphical presentation of data Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 10, 11. Assignment 13 due in class.

Thanksgiving Break

Week 14: Creating presentations, websites

• Tue, Dec 3: Developing and presenting a talk (.ps, .pdf). Reading Assignment: Higham Chapters 10, 11 Assignment 14 due in class
• Thu, Dec 5: Usability rules for websites (Nielsen)

Week 15: