Notes for CSC 400, 5 Feb. 2021 Introduction Welcome Look at online resources Record intro on Voicethread Course overview Introduction to the department: faculty, staff, peers, areas of research, offices and labs. Introduction to the PhD program: funding, academic hurdles and expectations. Introduction to the wider CS community: professional organizations, funding agencies, history, conferences and journals. The nature of graduate research: how to find a topic, how to be productive. Professional standards: academic honesty, codes of ethics/conduct, respect and inclusion. Local and internet library resources; how to do a literature search; how to read and review papers. How to write a research paper: organizing and presenting material; understanding your audience; mastering LaTeX. How to give an effective talk. How to review a paper; how to review a grant proposal. Likely projects Create a professional web site and starting a curriculum vitae. Review a research paper. Conduct a literature search and writing an area survey. Give a talk on the above. Write a grant review. Assignment for the coming week: create a self-intro on VoiceThread Break-out pairs: prepare to introduce each other; 10 min. Come back and do the intros. where you're from; where you are now (physically) what you're interested in what you most want to get out of this course whatever else you'd like us to know Introduction to the department Founded in 1974 by Jerry Feldman Historically known for AI Increasing strength in Systems over the years Smaller but distinguished Theory group throughout Growing into HCI (separate from AI) and data management (separate from systems) Strong ties to many other programs & departments Data Science, BCS, ECE Linguistics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, LLE, Psych, Poly Sci, Medicine, Optics, ... 10 yrs in Hylan 30 years in CSB almost 4 years in Wegmans 2, 3, part of 4th floor secret: 2nd digit of room number is the hallway. Start facing the engg. quad (0) and go counter-clockwise. Center is 6. << show map >>