CPSC 699 - Fall 2007

Research Methodology in Computer Science

Instructor Dr. J. E. Boyd
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary Alberta Canada T2N 1N4

Office: ICT 711
Hours: MW 0900-1000h

Notices:


Selected Course Material

Lectures MW 1300-1350h
Topics
Week Date Topic Notes
1 10/12-Sep-07 The science game
2 17/19-Sep-07 Communicating results keynote slides
3 24/26-Sep-07 Plagiarism S. Greenberg's slides
4 1/3-Oct-07 Intellectual property
5 10-Oct-07 Refereeing keynote slides
6 15/17-Oct-07 Funding keynote slides
7 22/24-Oct-07 Ethics keynote slides
8 29-Oct-07 Survey Design Notes from Victoria Mitchell keynote slides
31-Oct-07 Evidence keynote slides
9 5-Nov-07 Degree Path keynote slides
7-Nov-07 Latex keynote slides
10 14-Nov-07 Public Speaking
11 19/21-Nov-07 Writing
12 26/28-Nov-07 Student Presentations
13 3/5-Dec-07 Student Presentations
Seminars
  • Requirements
  • Hand in summaries to TA, Luke Olsen - instructions on Luke's 699 web page
  • Miscellaneous Seminar Information
    • iCore Information Security Lab Seminars
    • CISaC Distinguished Lecture Series
    • Tuesday, 6-Nov-07 - 1400h -
      Chia Shen - "Social and Visual Computing with Direct Touch Sharable User Interfaces- Beyond kiosks, photo sharing and games"
      and
      Phil Cohen - "Tangible multimodal interfaces for field and collaborative applications"
      ICT 516
      Hosted by Saul Greenberg
    • Thursday, 29-Nov-07 - 1200h - BI 211
      Dr. Philip Stamp
      Director, Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics
      "Decoherence: basic ideas"
    • Thursday, 6-Dec-07 - 1130h - BI 587
      Distinguished Lecture Series
      Professor Neal Koblitz - University of Washington
      "Is Automated Theorem-Proving a Panacea for the Woes of Theoretical Cryptography?"
    • Friday, 7-Dec-07 - 1100h - ICT 616
      Neal Koblitz - University of Washington
      "Juggling Assumptions in "Provable Security" Theorems"
      iCIS Distinguished Speaker
    • Friday, 7-Dec-07 - 1400h - ICT 516
      Pamela Jennings
      "Critical Creative Technology Practice, Research and Pedagogy"
      Hosted by Sheelagh Carpendale
    • Monday, 10-Dec-07 - 1400h - ICT 618B
      Yashar Ganjali
      "Buffer Sizing in Internet Routers"
      Hosted by Majid Ghaderi
    • Graduate Seminars
      • 28-Sep-07 - 1200h - ICT 616 - Idowu Adewale - "Monitoring Jobs in Grid Computing Environments"
      • 19-Oct-07 - 1200h - ICT 618 - Brad Cossett - "Polylingual Dependency Analysis Using Island Grammars: A Cost Versus Accuracy Evaluation"
      • 26-Oct-2007 - 1200h - ICT 616 - Kimberly Tee - "Providing Artifact Awareness to a Distributed Group through Screen Sharing"
      • 7-Dec-07 - 1200h - MS 623 - Mitra Shirmohammadi - "Geometric Modeling with L-systems"
Assignments
Public Speaking Sometime in the last two weeks of term you will give a 3-minute summary of your proposed thesis research to the class. Be sure to
  • attend class and sign up for a time slot to present,
  • attend the talks to learn and support your fellow students, and
  • if you are going to use power point slides, send them to me the day before your talk so that I can put them all onto one laptop (keeps the talks moving briskly).
Constructive and supportive comments to your fellow students between talks is strongly encouraged.
Support Material
Suggested Reading
  • T. Gilovich, How we know what isn't so: the fallibility of human reason in everyday life, Free Press, 1991 (in U of C library and Chapters/Indigo)
  • G. Polya, How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method, Princeton University Press, 1945. (reprinted many many times, in U of C library and Chapters/Indigo
  • D. T. Campbell and J. C. Stanley, Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research, Houghton Mifflin Co., reprinted from Handbook of research on teaching, 1963. (old but good, especially if you are doing experimental work)
  • P. R. Cohen, Empirical methods for artificial intelligence, The MIT Press, 1995. (Good for those doing experimental work, especially in AI. There may be books like it for those in different disciplines.
Chapter 1
  • Lots of useful information for graduate students at Saul Greenberg's Chapter 1
Intellectual Property
Reviewing
Professional Organizations
Mathematical & Statistical Consulting
Important Dates
Assignment 1 due1-Oct-07
Assignment 2 due15-Oct-07
Assignment 3 due29-Oct-07
Assignment 4 due14-Nov-07
Assignment 5 due3-Dec-07

Last modified: 23-Jan-08