UMBC CMSC 601 Spring 2011
Basic Research Skills
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 date Topic notes Reading Handouts/Links Comments, due
1
 1/26 Snow        
2
 1/31 Overview. Plagiarism. LaTeX.
  • overview
  • research
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  • Peters 1, 2
  • Zobel 13
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  • Grading policies
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  • HW1 out
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    3
    		 2/2 The reviewing process. Discussion of Parberry Classification/Analysis. Writing I: Organization, bibliographies.  BibTeX.
  • plagerism
  • latex
  • writing
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  • Zobel 10
  • Parberry
  • Neuman
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  • Plagiarism exercise
  • Paraphrasing
  • latex notes
  • ICML-03 review form
  • levin83
  • Chinneck:thesis
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  • HW1 due
  • HW2 out
  • HW3 out
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    3
    		 2/7 Library resources. Meet in Library 259
  • Zobel 1
  • Zobel pp. 19-26
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  • Lib. resources
  • Drew Alfgren notes, feedback form
    		•  HW4 out
    4
    		 2/9 In-depth paper analysis and critique.
  • latex
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  • Smith02
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  • Tips for Writing Technical Papers, J. Widom
    		•  HW2 due
    5
    		 2/14 Writing II: Style, common errors.
  • conferences
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  • desJardins, How to Succeed in Graduate School
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab's APA citation guidelines
    		•  Dr. dJ's Handy Writing Guide
    Outside reader agreement
    Kajiya, How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected

     
    6
    		 2/16 In-depth survey analysis and critique.
  • writing
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    Elvins, A survey of algorithms for volume visualization, SIGGRAPH, 1992.
    Jain et al., Data clustering: A review, ACM Computing Surveys 1999.

    		Literature survey tips

    HW4 due
    HW5 out
    7
    		 2/21 How to give a good presentation.
  • presenting
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  • Peters 20
  • Zobel 14
    		•  Paper presentation feedback form  
    Mark Hill, Oral Presentation Advice
    Peyton-Jones et al., How to Give a Good Research Talk
    Winston, Some Lecturing Heuristics
    Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia
  • HW3 due
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    8
    		 2/23 Research I: Finding a topic and advisor.
  • advisers
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  • Peters 5, 6, 16
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  • Hamming, You and Your Research
  • Hamming: paper
  • Hampel, "In Search of New Frontiers" (Chronicle of Higher Ed.)
  • HW6 out
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    9
    		 2/28 Research II: Research topics cont.
  • topics
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  • Zobel 9
  • Literature survey review form
  • Reader form due
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    10
    		 3/2 Writing III: Tools.
  • writing 3
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  • Zobel 4-5
  • The Simplified LaTeX beginner's guide and tutorial
  • The LaTeX Wikibook
  • LateX Project home page
  • The UK TeX FAQ
  • The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
  • Peter Flynn's Beginner's LaTeX
  • The AMS Short Math Guide for LaTeX
  • Keith Reckdahl's Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e
  • JAIR format
  • AAAI format
  • SIGGRAPH format
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    11
    		 3/7 Web presence
  • web
    		• Peters Ch. 13
  • mdj CV: pdf, source
  • Finin CV: pdf, html, source
    		•  HW6.1 due
    12
    		 3/9 Networking
  • networking
    		•  Peters Ch. 13
  • Susan Eggers, on networking
  • Cuny on networking
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    13 3/14 Time management
  • time
    		•  Peters Ch. 12, 21, 22, 23
  • CRA time management article
  • Drucker, Managing Oneself
  • H. T. Kung, Useful Things to Know About Ph.D. Thesis Research
    		•  HW5 done
    14
    		 3/16 Proposals
  • proposals
    		•  Peters Ch. 18
    		 Obtaining Federal Funding HW6.2 due
    SPRING BREAK 3/21-25
    3/28
    		   Research IV: Statistical methods. Guest speaker: Prof. Tim Oates  
  • Statistics resources
  • Statistical hypothesis testing
  • Hypothesis tests
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    3/30 
    		   Research IV: Statistical methods. Guest speaker: Prof. Tim Oates    
  • T test
  • T test calculator
    		•  HW7 out
    4/4
    		  

    Catching up: Proposals
  • proposals
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    Peters Ch. 18
  • HT Kung, Useful Things to Know About PhD Research
  • Obtaining Federal Funding
    		•   
    4/6
    		   Catching up: Time management
  • time
    		•  Peters Ch. 12, 21, 22, 23
  • CRA time mgmt article
  • Drucker, Managing Oneself
    		•  HW6.3 due friday
    4/11
    		   Data analysis
  • experiment design
  • Anscombe's paper
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  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Anscombe's quartet
    		•  HW7.1: Research problem statement
    4/13
    		   Dr.Wendy Carter
    		  


    4/18
    		  

    Guest lecture: Patti Ordonez

    		  

    		 
    4/20
    		   Student project presentations
  • Chris Nguyen
  • Niyati Chhaya
  • Prajit Kumar Das
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  • online review form
  • paper review form
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    4/25
    		   Student project presentations
  • Genaro Hernandez
  • Aniket Bochare
  • Matt Molek
  • Nikhil Puranik
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    		  HW7.2: Research problem statement revision
    4/27
    		   Student project presentations
  • Kwame Porter-Robinson
  • Kevin Winner
  • Bhuvana Kalyana Sundaram
  • Nimesh Subramanian
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    5/2
    		   Student project presentations
  • Eric Mudge
  • Ed Birrane
  • Shamit Patel
  • Sunil Venkatesh
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    5/4
    		   Student project presentations
  • Taekyu Shin
  • Zachary Kurtz
  • Chris Isgrig
  • Dibyajyoti Ghosh

    		• Paper review form
    5/9
    		   Student project presentations
  • Yu Wang
  • Rohit Kugaonkar
  • Sumit More
  • Shridhar Bhalerao
    		•      HW7.3 Paper draft (email)
    5/11
    		   Student project presentations
  • Tim Burke
  • Amey Sane
  • Anurag S Korde
  • Ashwinkumar Ganesan
  • Maksym Morawski
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    5/16
    		  
    		      HW7.5 Final paper,hardcopyand submitted to reviewer