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PLEASE HAND IN PAPER COPIES OF ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment 1 -
Research Proposal
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Format of proposal:
- Abstract
write this last and make it a brief summary of
the proposal
- Introduction
State the problem and an outline of your
proposed solution.
- Previous
Work
What have others done towards solving this
problem
- Your
Solution (The "core")
Sections here typically describe the data
structures, the algorithms, the user interface and
other technical details of your solution.
If you do not have
the answer to a technical problem
explain how you are going about seeking a
solution.
- Timeline
give a plan for finishing the project by the end
of the Fall term.
- Conclusion
This will be brief in the proposal, but expanded
to summarise your results in the interim and
final reports.
- Bibliography
If you use Latex and Bibntex then this part is easy
(it is up to you). There are many online
bibliographies in Latex format to search e.g.
for graphics at www.siggrpah.org
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Make
sure you cover the following points in your
proposal
- Goal
- What problem
am I going to solve?
- Who will
benefit?
- Challenge
- Why is the
problem hard?
- What
approaches have others tried?
- Why did
those previous approaches not work?
- Approach
- What
approach am I going to try?
- Why do I
think it will work well?
- Methodology
- What steps
(task list) are required?
- Which of
these steps is particularly hard?
- What to do
if the hard steps do not work out?
- Metrics
- How will I
know when I am done?
- How will I
know whether I have succeeded?
- Summary
- What will I
learn by doing this project?
- Will this
lead to
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Project
Web Page and format for documents
Please
build a project web page. It does not have to be
fancy, don't spend your time making it beautiful
unless you enjoy that kind of activity. As long as
the material is readable I am happy to just have it
in black and white.
For
project documents that are submitted for credit,
you can use Microsoft word, Latex or plain text or
better still just put the proposal on your project
web page. Pagemaker I am told is also quite good,
you need something that will help you format the
maths and the bibliography. You will no doubt spend
a lot of the rest of your life using MWord, try and
find out what else is available, what else is
possible!
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In
case you want to use LaTeX please use the format
found at "Using
LaTeX"
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Check
list of "Resources"
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Assignment 2 -
Final
Report
Conference papers should be
formatted as most academic conferences using exactly the
formats you should have used for your interim
report.
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Format
of Final Paper:
- Introduction
- Goal
- What did
we try to do?
- Who would
benefit?
- Previous
Work
- What
related work have other people done?
- When do
previous approaches fail/succeed?
- Approach
- What
approach did we try?
- Under
what circumstances do we think it should
work well?
- Why do we
think it should work well under those
circumstances?
- Methodology
- What pieces
had to be implemented to execute my approach?
- For each
piece ...
- Were
there several possible implementations?
- If there
were several possibilities, what were the
advantages/disadvantages of each?
- Which
implementation(s) did we do? Why?
- What did
we implement? <== Include detailed
descriptions
- What
didn't we implement? Why not?
- Results
- How did we
measure success?
- What
experiments did we execute?
- Provide
quantitative results.
- What do my
results indicate?
- Discussion
- Overall, is
the approach we took promising?
- What
different approach or variant of this
approach is better?
- What
follow-up work should be done next?
- What did we
learn by doing this project?
- Conclusion
- References
List of the most relevant papers/books useful
for the project
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In case
you want to use LaTeX:
the above report format is available in
LaTeX
HERE
Follow
additional instructions on various features (i.e.
producing your paper using pdflatex, how to add
tables, figures, algorithms, etc) by checking the
following pages:
If you used one
of these for your interim there will be little work
involved. Note that the page limit is 10 Pages
(double column format). You can also submit
supplementary material - images, movies, appendices
that will go onto the CD.
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Assignment 3 -
Final
Presentation
- To be
arranged in the last 3 weeks of term.
- Please
contact your supervisor and email me to arrange a
time.
- Time
allowed: 20 minute presentation (usually Power Point or
similar) and demonstration if appropriate, followed by
questions. Check
list of "Resources"
- Examiners:
Course Organizer and Supervisor.
- The
room is to be decided. A permanent
computer/projector set up will be available.
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FINAL
CONFERENCE QQQQQ TBA
- The
timetable
will be made close to the presentations. At that time please verify with your supervisor
that you can BOTH make your slot.
- You
will not get a mark for the course unless your
supervisor attends.
- The
conference will take place on the 11/12th
April.
- Please
attend all sessions for which you do not have
another class.
- You
will be expected to attend most of the
conference.
- Your
final presentation will be a 30 min. slot at the
conference: 20 minutes talk and demo and 10
mins. for questions.
- The
session chair will keep each paper strictly to
time.
- Supervisors
and course organzer have first chance to ask
questions.
- Questions
from the floor will be invited if there is
time.
- Please
prepare a conference paper and presentation for
the end of term.
- There
will be a proceedings given to each
student.
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