Notes for CSC 400, 19 Feb. 2021 ** Remember that all 400 students in a compatible time zone are ** expected to attend both faculty recruiting talks (noon on Mondays and ** some Fridays) and the late-afternoon graduate student meetings. The PhD program read the handbook! https://www.cs.rochester.edu/assets/pdf/2021-01_phd_handbook.pdf yearly hurdles breadth and depth requirements the area process thesis proposal PAS, 6MRs stipends, fellowships summers, limits on employment during the year TAships ---------------------------------------- For today you read (or skimmed) codes of ethics and professional conduct from the ACM. Has everyone also read the UR Academic Honesty policy? some things may be surprises some of it is culturally contextual esp. the emphasis on originality and attribution Questions? Everybody understand the reviewing process? conferences v. journals the oddness of "abstract submission" deadlines role of the program committee rebuttal/response opportunity shepherding emerging hybrid models conferences as proceedings (Proc. of the ACM on ___) conference/journal pairings (HiPEAC/TACO) "rolling deadlines" (IEEE Security [Oakland]) <<< breakout groups for ethical issue scenarios (see file in this folder) >>> ---------------------------------------- ** For next week: Pick a recent paper (maybe one of the ones you found when looking through leading conferences this past week) and prepare an 8-minute presentation on it for the class. How to read papers. Triage! To review a conference read the titles of the sessions, if there are any read the table of contents (all titles) read the abstracts of papers that have interesting titles for papers with interesting abstracts, do the following in order; stop when the paper isn't worth further effort - make note of who the authors are and where they're from - read the section headings - read the intro and the conclusions - skim the rest - read the rest - carefully study everything KEEP NOTES How to give a short talk. Figure out who your audience is and what they already know. Think about the "trailer" of a movie: it isn't a condensed version of the movie, or even a set of highlights. It's an ad! That's what a short talk is: an ad. You want to tell people what the paper is about why it's interesting how it fits into the broader sweep of the field Make them want to read it for themselves.