CS295J/Assignments

Assignment 1 (out January 23, 2009)

• spend 10 hours adding to any part of the wiki you think is relevant
• by Monday noon add any potential readings. If you've got a tentative summary evaluation, go ahead and add it. It's ok to edit folks summary evaluations, but try to make the result more accurate or precise without losing information.
• by Wednesday noon finish with any summary evaluation and also identify at least one as-relevant-as-possible reading as yours. Put your name on that entry in the reading list as the "owner" so that there are no duplicates.
• by Wednesday 5pm -- select 2 additional relevant readings that are owned and that you will read by Friday and be prepared to discuss. Put your name as a "discussant" in the reading list; there should be a max of two discussants per reading.
• by Friday class -- author a summary description, less than 250 words, in the wiki of how the reading you own relates to our project. Be prepared to describe, in two minutes, how your reading relates to the project. Also be prepared for everyone in class to discuss after your description. You may bring notes for yourself, but no slides. The wiki page for your reading will be displayed while you talk.
• by Friday class -- read and be prepared to discuss the other two readings you choose.
• by Friday class -- make one more wiki page titled "<Last-Name> week 1" with a list of the keys for the citations you added, the readings you summarized, the reading you presented, the two readings you were a discussant on, and any other readings you did in detail.
• Let me know if you have any kind of problems. You should be spending right around 10 hours -- if that's a problem, let's talk.
• The How Tos page has some tips. Edit or add as you find others.

Assignment 2 (out January 30, 2009)

• Refine literature short summaries to include the relationship to our project.
• Write a subsection in the background section of the CS295J/Research proposal, making sure to include citations to the relevant materials in the literature page. Add any new references to the literature page.
• Add to or refine one or more specific contribution in the CS295J/Research proposal; each contribution must have a list of ways it can be demonstrated. Some will become part of the preliminary results, others will be parts of the future work that will be proposed.
• Add to or refine one or more specific aim in the CS295J/Research proposal; make it consistent with the contribution you added.
• Be prepared to summarize to the class your contributions to the background, contributions, and aims sections.
• If there is preliminary work that will help to make decisions about contributions and aims, please get started on it (and be ready to report on what you'd like to do or what you have done).