Course calender, Spring 2004
[Last changed: 3/15/2004 at 4:30pm]

Week 1: Intro, being a grad student
* Tue, Jan 20: Course Intro, what do CS researchers do?
Notes 0-4.
Reading Assignment: 4 websites listed in the notes.
* Thu, Jan 22: How to be a successful research-track graduate student.
Notes 5-16.
Meet in McB 655, open to all grad students.

Week 2: Being a grad student, tools for writing.
* Tue, Jan 27 Being a student (at VT): Exams, etc. Research-related jobs.
Notes 17-22.
Reading Assignment: Chapters 1-2 of Higham. 
* Thu, Jan 29: How to get started on writing, tools of the
trade. Including contrast of LaTeX vs. MS Word, and by implication
discuss some tool support needed by people who must write major
technical documents.
Notes 23-29
Reading Assignment: Chapter 13 of Higham.

Week 3: The Library and online Resources
**** Mon, Feb 2: Assignment 1 due via email to myoung@vt.edu at Noon.
* Tue, Feb 3: Library Tour, meet Michelle Young in the Newman Library lobby.
* Thu, Feb 5: Online Resources, meet in the MAC lab on the second
floor of the Newman Library.

Week 4: English, writing papers
* Tue, Feb 10: Some english hotspots.
Notes 30-34
Reading Assignment: Chapters 3-5 of Higham.
**** Assignment 2 due in class. (Grammer)
* Thu, Feb 12: The main structural features of a technical paper
Reading Assignment: Chapter 6 of Higham.
Notes 35-39

Week 5: Writing papers
* Tue, Feb 17: More on writing a paper (Higham Chapter 6)
Notes 40-57
* Thu, Feb 19: Revising papers.
Reading Assignment: Chapter 7 of Higham.
Notes 58-61
**** Assignment 3 due in class. (3 page paper)

Week 6: Publishing and reviewing
* Tue, Feb 24: Publishing and Reviewing.
Reading Assignment: Wilson paper on the links page.
Notes 61-68
* Thu, Feb 26: Guest Lecture: Osman Balci, reviewing.
**** Assignment 4 due in class. (Pub venues)

Week 7: Writing proposals
* Tue, March 2: Reviewing; Proposal writing
Reading Assignment: Higham Chapter 9.
Notes 69-76
**** Assignment 5 due in class. (Copy Edit)
* Thu, March 4: Proposal writing
Notes 77-82
**** Assignment 6 due in class. (Abstract)

SPRING BREAK: March 6-14

Week 8: Jain: Performance evaluation
* Tue, March 16: Performance evaluation
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 1-2
Notes 83-89
* Thu, March 18: Performance evaluation.
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 3-4.
Notes 90-98
**** Assignment 7 due in class. (Review)

Week 9: Jain: Statistics
* Tue, March 23: Statistics: Central tendency and dispersion.
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 6, 12.
Notes 99-105
* Thu, March 25: Statistics: Hypothesis testing.
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 13.
Notes 106-114
**** Assignment 8 due in class. (Rewrite)

Week 10: Jain: Statistics
* Tue, March 30: Simple linear regression.
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 14.
Notes 115-123
**** Assignment 9 due in class. (Outline)
* Thu, April 1:  Statistics: Regression, ANOVA, Crosstabs.
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 15.
Notes 124-134
**** Assignment 10 due in class. (Jain)

Week 11: Statistics
* Tue, April 6: Experimental Design Intro, 2^k-factorial design
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 16, 17
Notes 135-143
* Thu, April 8: General and fractional 2^k factorial designs
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 18-19.
Notes 144-151
**** Assignment 11 due in class. (Jain)

Week 12: Experimental design
* Tue, April 13: : Experimental design wrapup
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 20-21.
Notes 152-154
* Thu, April 15: Experimental design case study
Notes 155-162

Week 13: Experimental design, graphical presentation
* Tue, April 20: Graphical presentation of data
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 10, 11.
Notes 162-163
**** Assignment 12 due in class. (Jain)
* Thu, April 22: Graphical presentation, developing and presenting a talk.
Reading Assignment: Higham Chapters 10, 11.
164-171

Week 14: E-publishing; Websites.
* Tue, April 27: E-publishing, Usability rules for websites (Nielsen)
Notes 172-174
* Thu, April 29: Websites
**** Assignment 13 due in class. (Proposal)
Notes 175-

Week 15:
* Tue, May 4: Last day of class
**** Thu, May 6: Assignment 14 due (Website)