CS501: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Computer Science I Fall, 1998

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Index: •Assignments •Class Meeting Times and Place •Course is Required •Course Schedule •Grading •Instructor •News Group •Registration Number •Texts

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Instructor:

Prof. Stuart C. Shapiro, 226 Bell Hall, 645-3180 ext. 125, shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu,

Office Hours: See my schedule. If I'm in my office, and not talking to someone else, I'll be happy to talk with you. Or make an appointment via Gloria Koontz, koontz@cse.buffalo.edu, 716-645-3180 Ext. 103

Class Meetings: Wed Fri 11:00 - 11:50 AM, 210 Natural Sciences Building

Registration Number: 234057

Texts (Buy from Book Store):

• Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System User's Guide and Reference Manual, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994.
• Richard Stallman, GNU Emacs Manual, 13th Edition, Free Software Foundation, 1997.
• Mary-Claire van Leunen, A Handbook for Scholars, Revised Edition Oxford University Press, New York, 1992.

These are all reference books you will be using for several years, at least.

CS501/502/700 Requirement:

As the document, New Qualifying Process at CS Department, says, "For both MS and Ph.D. students, 501 is required. (502-700 are no longer required.)" In fact, CS502 will no longer be offered. CS700, however, is still available by individual arrangement with a faculty member.

News Group: The news group for this course is sunyab.cs.501. Post questions and general information of interest to this class.

Schedule:

CS 501, WF 11:00 - 11:50 AM, ROOM 210 Natural Sciences Building

September	2	Prof. Shapiro Dr. Davin Milun	Introductions Computer Accounts
	4	Prof. Raj Acharya	Assigment 1 due Graduate Studies in CSE at UB
	9	Dr. Milun	UB CSE Computing Environment
	11	Prof. Shapiro	Drop/Add Deadline Begin Emacs
	16	Prof. Shapiro	Finish Emacs
	18	Prof. Shapiro	LaTeX
	23	Prof. Shapiro	HTML
	25	Prof. Chunming Qiao	Advanced Networking Design, Evaluation, and Research
	30	No class	Yom Kippur
October	2	Prof. Zhongfei Zhang	Image Understanding Research and Its Application in Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
	7	Prof. Jin-Yi Cai	WWW Home Page due Complexity Theory Research
	9	Prof. Kenneth Regan	Have All the Answers Already Been Computed?
	14	Prof. Peter Scott	Foveal Vision and Learning-Based Gaze Control
	16	Prof. Shambhu Upadhyaya	Dependable Computing
	21	Prof. Acharya	Networked Multimedia and Visualization Research
	23	Prof. Venugopal Govindaraju	R Deadline Efficient Classification Techniques using Entropy Models
	28	Prof. Ashim Garg	Information Visualization
	30	Prof. Shapiro	Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
November	4	Prof. Sargur Srihari	TBA
	6	Prof. William Rapaport	A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Acquisition
	11	Prof. Rohini Srihari	Multimedia Information Retrieval
	13	Prof. Ramalingam Sridhar	High-Performance (high speed, low power) VLSI Systems
	18	Prof. Aidong Zhang	Multimedia and Database Research
	20	Prof. Deborah Walters	TBA
	24		Follow Wednesday Schedule
	25	No class	Fall Recess
	27	No class	Fall Recess
December	2	Prof. Russ Miller	What Miller's Up To: Reasearch in Algorithms and Computational Crystallography and the Center for Computational Research
	4	Prof. Nihar Mahapatra	Parallel & Distributed Computing and Computer Architecture Research
	9	Prof. Bharat Jayaraman	Programming Language Research
	11	Prof. Xin (Roger) He	Last class Combinatorial Algorithms

Grading:

Grading is on an S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) basis. Registrants are responsible for attending all class meetings and handing in all assignments on time. Excessive absences from class, or excessive missed or late assignments will be result in a grade of "U". A grade of "S" in this course is required for any graduate degree in this department.

Assignments:

Due Friday, September 4, 1998:

Email answers to the following questions to Prof. Shapiro

1. (If you are a non-U.S. student) Why did you choose to do your graduate work in the U.S.?
2. Why did you decide to do your graduate work in this department and in this university?
3. What is the final degree you plan/hope to earn in this department, M.S. or Ph.D.?
4. What area of computer science are you interested in?

Due Wednesday, October 7, 1998:

Create a Home Page on the World-Wide Web. Find instructions and useful information in the Department's Information on building a home page. You might also find helpful information from Prof. Miller's WWW Seminar. Note that your page is on the Web as soon as you create it and make it publicly, but your assignment will not be considered finished until your page is accessible from the Department's list of Graduate Student Home Pages.

Due every Wednesday following a departmental colloquium:

Write a short review of the talk. Include:

• The name and affiliation of the speaker.
• The title of the talk.
• The date of the talk.
• A short summary of the main points of the talk in your own words, to the best of your ability.
• Give your reaction to/impression of the contents of the talk.
• Comment on the positive and negative aspects of the speaker's speaking/presentation style.

Here is a LaTeX template you may copy and use, and here is what it looks like after processing.

Due every class meeting following a research presentation by member of the department graduate faculty:

Write a short review of the talk. Include

• The name of the speaker.
• The title of the presentation.
• The date of the presentation.
• A short summary of the presentation in your own words, to the best of your ability.
• Your reaction to/impression of the presentation. How interesting do you find the research area as a potential area for your own future work?

On a separate page, provide anonymous comments on the presentation as feedback for the speaker. Include:

• A critique of the contents;
• A critique of the presentation style.

Here is a LaTeX template you may copy and use, and here is what it looks like after processing.

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Stuart C. Shapiro <shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu>