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C SC 80010 Research Survey

Spring 2019

by Professor Hui Chen, CUNY Brooklyn College & Graduate Center

Section 1

Class Meeting: 09:30-11:30AM Thursday
Classroom: Graduate Center 4422

Course Schedule

Topics: course policy and organization; some discussion on research and literature survey

Lecture Notes
Class Policy and Organization Literature Survey and Writing Tools
Assignment
Topic identification and presentation preparation
Setting up private Git repository on Github (see Blackboard)
Answer the Questionnaire about presentation scheduling sent via a CUNY Blackboard announcement by next class on Thursday, February 7, 2019.
Review the lecture notes.
Resources
Past Student Surveys and Presentations
  • S. Keshav. 2007. How to read a paper. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 37, 3 (July 2007), 83-84. DOI=10.1145/1273445.1273458 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273445.1273458
  • Elisabetath Pain, How to (seriously) read a scientific paper, Science Magazine Online, Mar. 21, 2016
  • Gopen, George D., and Judith A. Swan. " The science of scientific writing." American Scientist (1990): 550-558.

    • Topics: Presentation scheduling; Survey repositories and tools; discussion on computer science presentations; some discussions on computer science research (structure of computer science and engineering research; perspectives of research; how to shape a research; literature review)

    Lecture Notes
    Some Suggestion on Computer Science Presentations Setting up Survey Repository and Tools Some Discussions on Computer Science Research
    Resources
    Best Practice Memos by the Computing Research Association Zobel, Justin., Writing for Computer Science. 3rd Ed. Springer, 2015. Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The craft of research University of Chicago press, 2009.

    Topics: student presentations; tools of trade (git and gitignore)

    Lecture Notes
    C03a: Tools of Trade: git and .gitignore
    Topic Identification Presentation
    Student 1 Student 4 Student 7

    Topics: student presentations; hypothesis and evidence

    Lecture Notes
    C04a: Hypothesis and Evidence
    Topic Identification Presentation
    Student 3 Student 5 Student 9

    Topics: student presentations

    Topic Identification Presentation
    Student 2 Student 6 Student 8
    Topic Exploration Presentation
    Student 4 Student 7

    Topics: student presentations; graphing (visual communication of evidence to support claims)

    Lecture Notes
    C06a: Communicating Evidence Visually
    Topic Exploration Presentation
    Student 3 Student 5

    Topics

    Topic Exploration Presentation
    Student 1 Student 6 Student 9

    Topics: Student presentations; discussion on writing

    Topic Exploration Presentation
    Student 8
    Presentation for First Draft of Survey
    Student 7
    Lecture Notes
    C08a: Avoiding Commmon Errors in Writing

    Topics: Student presentations

    Topic Exploration Presentation
    Student 2
    Presentation for First Draft of Survey
    Student 4 Student 5

    Topics: Student presentations

    Presentation for First Draft of Survey
    Student 3 Student 8 Student 9

    Topics: Students' presentations

    Presentation for First Draft of Survey
    Student 1 Student 2 Student 6

    Topics:

    Presentation for Second Draft of Survey
    Student 2 Student 7 Student 8 Student 9

    Topics Spring Recess: April 19-28, Friday-Sunday

    Topics

    Presentation for Second Draft of Survey
    Student 1 Student 3 Student 4 Student 5 Student 6

    Topics

    Presentation for Final Draft of Survey
    Student 2 Student 5 Student 7 Student 8