Note All homeworks are due by 5pm before the listed day.
| Date | Topic | Readings | Homework |
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| 01/28 | Introduction: What is CS research? | ||
| 02/04 | "Research impact" and the interaction between industry and research | Reading, Finding, and Connecting with research | |
| 02/11 | Reading and critically analyzing papers |
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Critically analyzing research papers |
| 02/18 | Data Science: A Primer | Please read the paper and submit a thoughtful but brief analysis of the paper (strengths and weaknesses of the research methods, what you found interesting) by 5pm on Monday 2/17 (the day before). | |
| 02/25 | Pre-proposal presentations |
Form final project teams outside of class, let Dave and Leilani know. Come up with a short pitch for your final project idea to present in class and get feedback. |
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| 03/03 | Guest Lecture: Aniket Bera | ||
| 03/10 | Guest Lecture: Mike Hicks | Reading response on HotCRP | |
| 03/17 | Spring Break | ||
| 03/24 | "Spring Break" | ||
| 03/31 | Guest Lecture: Ashok Agrawala | Using Wearables to assess health. | Reading response on HotCRP |
| 04/07 | Ethics in CS research | The role of ethics in CS research | |
| 04/14 | Project feedback meetings | Project status report described here. | |
| 04/21 | Guest Lecture: Rob Patro | An Efficient, Scalable, and Exact Representation of High-Dimensional Color Information Enabled Using de Bruijn Graph Search | Reading response on HotCRP |
| 04/28 | Guest Lecture: Dana Dachman-Soled |
Video lecture: An Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography
Talk Slides |
No assigned reading. |
| 05/05 | Guest Lecture: Hernisa Kacorri |
Talk Title: Disability, AI, and Teachable Machines Reading: People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges |
Reading response on HotCRP |
| 05/12 | Grad students presentations | TBD | |
| 05/19 | Final presentations | Group presentations in class; details here. |