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COURSE SYLLABUS CIS5935 Introductory Seminar on Research Fall 2009

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GOOD NEWS IF YOUR REPORTS SCORE IS 8 OR MORE:

You do not need to do any more SHORT Reports. However, you still must attend all class meetings and hand in the two long Reports.

Prerequisites:

You should be a graduate student.

Class Schedule:

Activity	Day	Time	Location
Lecture	T R	12:30 pm - 1:45 am	LOV 103

Grade list with your current scores available at: http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~lokhande.

Contact Information:

Instructor:	Mike Burmester
Office hours:	T 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, R 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm. I am also usually available in my office, and you can feel free to meet me in the afternoons. Alternatively, you may schedule an appointment, either by email or by phone.
Office:	268, Love Building
Phone:	644-6410
Email:	burmeste AT cs.fsu.edu

Course Material:

Required Text

• None.

Course Rationale:

This course introduces you to the research done by the Computer Science faculty, which will help you in choosing an adviser and a topic for your PhD dissertation, MS thesis, or MS project.

Course Description:

You will primarily listen to faculty talk about their research. You will submit written summaries for ALL of these talks, and also write more detailed reports on the research of two faculty members.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this course, you should be able to accomplish the objectives given below.

• Briefly summarize the research carried out by different faculty members in the Computer Science Department.

• Explain in detail the research carried out by two faculty members, chosen by you.

Your Responsibilities:

Deadlines and Instructions

Following the same professional guidelines that you will encounter at work, there are strict deadlines, and instructions that must be followed. Please read instructions carefully, and schedule your activities so that you submit assignments on time. You should check the class web page regularly, and note other announcements, on-line and in class.

Class Participation

You should be in class on time, and leave only after it is over. Otherwise, you will be marked absent. You should also pay attention to the talks presented by faculty, and instructions given by me. You should not disturb the class in any manner, such as by talking to others while the class is going on.

Assignments

You will have two types of assignments in this course. Formatting instructions are available at www.cs.fsu.edu/~burmeste/CIS5935/format.html.

1. Summaries: You should write a one-page summary of the talk given by each faculty member. You may supplement the material presented at the talk with on-line material from that faculty member's web page, if you wish to. Your written report will be judged both on content and on presentation. In particular, you should have no typographical errors. If I mark two of your reports as good, then you need not write any more summaries, for this category of assignments. Hardcopies of the summaries are due at the beginning of the next lecture. If no talk is scheduled for the next lecture, then please place your homework under my office door.

2. Detailed reports: You should look at the web pages of all faculty and choose two on whose research you want to write a more detailed five-page report. This report should also include information on one or two recent or current research grants obtained by the faculty, its source, and amount. You should also give two of the most cited journal articles of the faculty member (using the ISI Science Citation Index data) and two of the most cited conference articles (using data from Scholar Google). A hardcopy of each report is due on the date mentioned in the course calendar. You should hand it over to me at the begining of class on the due date. This report too will be judged both on content and on presentation. If a report is not satisfactory, then you will need to write reports on additional faculty members, until you produce a good one.

Course Calendar:

Week	Lecture	Speaker	Assignment
1	25 Aug	Mike Burmester -- Introduction to the course
	27 Aug	Mike Burmester -- Security for the Next Generation of Wireless Networks: the Good, the Bad, and the Evil
2	1 Sep	Zhenghai Duan -- Computer Networks	Summary due Sep 1 Summary due Sep 3
	3 Sep	Feifei Li -- Database Management
3	8 Sep	Ted Baker -- Recent developments in multi-processor scheduling techniques for real-time systems	Summary due Sep 8 Summary due Sep 10
	10 Sep
4	15 Sep		Summary due Sep 15 Summary due Sep 17
	17 Sep	Nancy Kellett Class meets in Dirac Science Library Instruction Room
5	22 Sep	Andy Wang -- My Passion for Digital Plumbing	Summary due Sep 24 Summary due Sep 29
	24 Sep	Piyush Kumar --- Algorithms in the real world
6	29 Sep	Xiuwen Liu -- Research Opportunities in Computer Vision at FSU	Summary due Oct 1 Summary due Oct 6
	1 Oct	Robert van Engelen -- Formal Methods for Program Analysis and Generation
7	6 Oct	Michael Mascagni -- Random Number Generation	Summary and first detailed report due Oct 6 Summary due Oct 13
	8 Oct	David Houle -- Phenotypes, image processing and visualization
8	13 Oct	Ashok Schrinivasan -- Introduction to Research 2009	Summary due Oct 15
	15 Oct	Nancy Kellett Class meets in Dirac Science Library Instruction Room: Adhav, Swati to Krishna, Siddharth	No summary due
9	20 Oct	Nancy Kellett Class meets in Dirac Science Library Instruction Room: Lin, Fangzhou to Zuniga, Alessandro	No summary due Summary due Oct 27
	22 Oct	Jinfeng Zhang -- Automatic information extraction from scientific literature
10	27 Octf	Jonathan H. Dennis -- How computational science put the 'genetics' back in 'epigenetics'	Summary due Nov 3
	29 Oct	Cecil Greek -- Deviance in Online Gaming Worlds: Implications for Cybercrime
11	3 Nov	Xin Yuan -- Parallel and Distributed Systems	Summary and second detailed report due Nov 3
	5 Nov	Class Cancelled
12	10 Nov	David Whalley -- Embedded Systems	Summary due Nov 12 Summary due Nov 17
	12 Nov	Jeffrey Jestes -- How to be a good PhD student
13	17 Nov	Sudhir Aggarwal -- Digital Forensics	Summary due Nov 19 Summary due Nov 24
	19 Nov	Daniel Schwartz -- Artificial Intelligence Theory, Applications, and Related Topics
14	24 Nov	Zhengao Zhang -- Wireless Networks	Summary due Dec 1
	26 Nov	Thanksgiving -- no class
15	1 Dec		Summary due Dec 1
	3 Dec

Links to presentations:

Mike Burmester -- Security for the Next Generation of Wireless Networks: the Good, the Bad, and the Evil   LINK

Zhenghai Duan -- Computer Networks   LINK

Feifei Li -- Database Management   LINK

Robert van Engelen -- Formal Methods for Program Analysis and Generation   LINK

Michael Mascagni -- Random Number Generation   LINK

Nancy Kellett -- Computer Science Research, a Librarian's Perspective   LINK

Grading Criteria:

The grade will be S/U only. You will need to perform satisfactorily in each of the following criteria in order to pass the course.

• Attendance and participation in the talks given by the faculty: Attendance will be taken when class begins, and so you will be marked absent if you come late. You will also be marked absent if you leave before class ends! You should also participate in the class by paying attention to the talk. You should not disturb the class, such as by talking with others when the speaker is making a presentation. You may have at most three lectures with unsatisfactory performance in this category in order to pass the course. For example, if you miss two classes, and talk with your friends in two lectures, then you will have four lectures with unsatisfactory performances, and so you will get a U grade for the course.

• Summaries of talks: You should give summaries of the talks presented by the faculty, as noted earlier.

• Detailed reports: You should give detailed reports on faculty research, as noted earlier.

Course Policies:

Attendance Policy

The university requires attendance in all classes, and it is also important to your learning. Your attendance record may be provided to deans who request it. You may have at most three unexcused absences, if you wish to get a passing grade. In rare cases, such as medical needs or jury duty, absences may be excused with appropriate documentation. You should let me know in advance, when possible, and submit the documentation I seek.

Late Assignment Policy

We have the following policy regarding submission of late assignments, in order to encourage you to submit them on time. Note that if you submit an assignment multiple times, the last submission alone will be considered for grading. Therefore, if the last submission is late, then a late submission penalty will apply, even if your earlier submissions had been on time.

• An assignment that is turned in late will receive a score of zero, although we will review it and comment on it.

Professional Ethics

You may not copy material from any source. Furthermore, you should take steps to ensure that others cannot copy work. For example, you should have all permissions on assignment files and directories set off for others.

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is "representing another's work or any part thereof, be it published or unpublished, as ones own. For example, plagiarism includes failure to use quotation marks or other conventional markings around material quoted from any source" (Florida State University General Bulletin 1998-1999, p. 69). Failure to document material properly, that is, to indicate that the material came from another source, is also considered a form of plagiarism. Copying someone else's program, and turning it in as if it were your own work, is also considered plagiarism.

Academic Honor Policy

The Florida State University Academic Honor Policy outlines the University’s expectations for the integrity of students’ academic work, the procedures forresolving alleged violations of those expectations, and the rights and responsibilities of students and faculty members throughout the process. Students are responsible for reading the Academic Honor Policy and for living up to their pledge to “. . . be honest and truthful and . . . [to] strive for personal and institutional integrity at Florida State University.” (Florida State University Academic Honor Policy, found at http://dof.fsu.edu/honorpolicy.htm .)

ADA

Students with disabilities needing academic accommodation should (1) register with and provide documentation to the Student Disability Center, and (2) bring a letter to the instructor indicating the need for accommodation and what type. This should be done during the first week of class. For more information about services available to FSU students with disabilities, contact:

Student Disability Resource Center
Dean of Students Department
97 Woodward Avenue, South
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4167
(850) 644-9566 (voice)
(850) 644-8504 (TDD)
sdrc@admin.fsu.edu
http://www.fsu.edu/~staffair/dean/StudentDisability/

This syllabus and other class materials will be made available in alternative format upon request.

SYLLABUS CHANGE POLICY:

This syllabus is a guide for the course and is subject to change with advanced notice.

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Last modified: 20 August 2009