CPS 300
Introduction to Graduate Study
| Date | Happening/Happened |
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| Aug 27 | Introductions and discussion of graduate degree process and requirements. | |
| Aug 29 | No class: 230 quals exam | |
| Sept 3 | On being a scientist | |
| Sept 5 | No class | |
| Sept 10 | Computer science as a discipline | Denning papers on CS as a discipline |
| Sept 12 | CPS lab and security policies (Joe Shamblin) | |
| Sept 17 | Experimental computer science and quantitative methods (Carla Ellis) |
Should computer scientists experiment more? (restricted to cs.duke) |
| Sept 19 | No class | |
| Sept 24 | Dan Sorin: why architecture research is fun and exciting | |
| Sept 26 | No class | |
| Oct 1 |
How to Be a Good Graduate Student, or, Your Advisor and You (Alvin Lebeck). This session will meet at 5:20 PM. |
relevant links on the resources page |
| Oct 3 | No class | |
| Oct 8 | Carlo Tomasi, research in computer vision | |
| Oct 10 | No class | |
| Oct 15 | Fall break | |
| Oct 17 | No class | |
| Oct 22 | Research effectiveness (Richard Lucic) | |
| Oct 24 | Research effectiveness (Richard Lucic) | |
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| Oct 31 | ||
| Nov 5 | John Harer: computational science as an enabler in other disciplines | |
| Nov 7 | ||
| Nov 12 | Ron Parr | |
| Nov 14 | Jun Yang | |
| Nov 19 | Alex Hartemink | |
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| Nov 26 |