Current Announcements:
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Homework
assignments have been posted for the first five weeks of the syllabus --- see
below. Thereafter, no homework! Work on your other classes.
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Your
first homework assignment --- find and read a research
paper by an ICS faculty member (see Week 1, below).
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Bring
your paper to class on Wed., 5 Oct.; and bring it to ILC-164 on Wed., 19 Oct.
o Current announcements will appear here, at top-level, for quick and easy inspection.
William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, MacMillan, New York.
Robert A. Day (ed.), How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Oryx Press, 1998.
Joseph M. Williams, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Harper-Collins, 1989.
Dale Carnegie, The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking: Modern Techniques for Dynamic Communication, Pocket Books, New York, 1977.
Robert M. Woelfle (ed.), A New Guide for Better Technical Presentations, IEEE Press, 1992.
The following represents a preliminary syllabus. Some changes in the lecture
sequence may occur due to earthquakes, fires, floods, wars, natural disasters,
unnatural disasters, or the discretion of the instructor based on class
progress.
Background Reading and Lecture Slides will be changed or revised as the
class progresses at the discretion of the instructor.
Week 1:
Wed., 28 Sep., Introduction to the ICS Honors Program.
Homework
#1, due Wed., 5 Oct.:
Find and read a research paper by an ICS Faculty Member.
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Make sure the paper
already will be indexed in the literature (published at least 6 months ago in a
major venue).
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Bring your paper to class on Wed., 5 Oct. (Students with time conflicts: email its title and authors to Dr.
Lathrop)
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Bring
your paper to ILC-164 on Wed., 19 Oct. (Time conflicts: bring it
to the alternate library orientation, TBA)
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If you already have a
research advisor and topic, this research paper must be from an entirely
different research area. The intent is to broaden your exposure
to ICS research.
Week 2:
Wed., 5 Oct., Introduction to the Scientific
and Technical Research Literature.
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Bring your ICS faculty research paper to class on Wed., 5
Oct.
Homework
#2, due Wed., 12 Oct.:
Summary, Point, & Question about your paper. [Instructions; Guide]
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Email your 1-page Summary
to Dr. Lathrop by Wed., 12 Oct.
Background material:
Literature overview. [PDF;
PPT]
Technical writing. [PDF]
Week 3:
Wed.,
12 Oct., Meet in DBH-5011,
ICS Faculty Panel on Improving your Grad School Applications.
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Students with time
conflicts: Watch the video on the SAO website later. [link will appear here]
View the US Bureau of
Labor Statistics chart of education, income, and unemployment (click here).
Homework
#3, due Wed., 19 Oct.:
Identify
five grad schools you might apply
to. For each school, identify one
professor there with whom you might work.
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Email your
list to Dr. Lathrop by Wed., 19 Oct.
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The reason for this requirement is so that when you write your
Statement of Purpose for each school, you will be able to mention at least one
professor *from that school* who
interests you.
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Some professors will do a global string search for their name
through all of the applicant's Statements of Purpose, and then preferentially
read those applications that mention their name.
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Thus, if you want to improve the chances that your application
actually will be read seriously, it is helpful to you to mention names of
professors at that school who interest you. Of course, if you mention a long list of
names it will be obvious spam, so mention no more than one to three. Also,
briefly mention something personal that attracts your interest about each,
again to indicate that it isn’t just impersonal spam.
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These remarks apply mainly to Ph.D. applications. M.S. applications usually do not receive
as much carefully individual scrutiny as do Ph.D. applications.
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Even if you currently do not
intend to apply to graduate school, you still must attend the Panel and do the
homework. If you ever change your mind later in
your career, after you know more than you do now, you will want to be properly
prepared.
Week 4:
Wed., 19 Oct., Meet
in ILC-164 at the Ayala Science Library, Introduction to Searching the
Research Literature.
o Bring your ICS
faculty research paper to ILC-164 on Wed., 19 Oct.
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Your challenge: Find your paper in the
literature databases using the online search tools.
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Pretend you didn’t know it existed beforehand, but need to
find it --- Treasure Hunt!
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Students with time
conflicts: I will try to arrange an alternate library
orientation, TBA.
Homework #4, Due Wed., 26 Oct.:
Identify three interesting ICS
research areas, and three interesting professors in each.
[Instructions]
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Email your
1-page Summary to Dr. Lathrop by Wed., 26 Oct.
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The point to this exercise is to show you that you have very
broad interests, and that you can find many ICS professors who might sponsor
interesting research.
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If you already have a
research advisor and topic, all three research areas must be entirely different. The intent is to
broaden your exposure to ICS research.
Week 5:
Wed., 26 Oct., Meet in ICS-243 rest of quarter, How to Find and Join a Research Group.
Homework #5, Due Wed., 2 Nov.:
Identify
one interesting ICS professor you might work with.
[Instructions]
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Email your
1-page Summary to Dr. Lathrop by Wed., 2 Nov.
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If you already have a
research advisor and topic, this ICS professor must be from an entirely
different area. The intent is to broaden your exposure
to CS research.
Week 6:
Wed., 2 Nov., How to Give a
Successful Technical Talk.
Background material:
Example
talk: Intelligent Systems and Molecular
Biology.
No
more homework! Work hard in your
other courses!
Week 7:
Wed., 9 Nov., Responsible Conduct of
Research.
On Being a Scientist Video. Authors: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine
Responsible Conduct of Research. Presentation Material Credit: On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research, Third Edition, The National Academies; Michael Kalichman, Director, UC San Diego Research Ethics Program; Said Shokair, Director, UCI UROP; ICS Honors Program by Rick Lathrop, Director, ICS Honors Program.
Background
Material:
“Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research,” Nicholas H. Steneck with David Zinn, Office of Research Integrity (ORI), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“UC Conflict of Interest Policy,” UC Business and Finance Bulletin G-39, UC Executive Vice President – Business Operations.
Week 8:
Wed., 16 Nov., Research Intellectual Property
(IP) and Entrepreneurship.
Background
Material:
UC
Patent Policy, and Patent Acknowledgment.
Week 9:
Wed.,
23 Nov., Student Practice Technical Talks (2 slots available --- ask now; first
come, first served).
10:00-10:25
--- Michael Merchant
Title:
Skill Acquisition - A New Framework
and an Integrated Platform [PPT]
Abstract:
Due
technological advancements and shifts in the market place, workforce and skill
displacement has become quite common. Retraining methodologies for workers has
not caught up and our economy's main mode of training, universities do not
focus solely on
skill development, becoming to expensive for retraining. We've also seen
numerous successes in the software industry of people who trained themselves.
We'll discuss a new framework for viewing skill acquisition, which consists of
skill selection, resource identification, a recurring loop of planning, doing,
and reviewing, and finally reporting. Finally, we'll finish by discussing what
and how software can be built to assist individuals through the process and
help all those involved in the skill acquisition process better connect and
work with one another.
10:25-10:50
--- Michael Stewart
Title:
Generative
Models for Probabilistic Inference [PPT]
Abstract:
Many
problems today involve very large data sets and many variables. Generative
modeling allows for the approximation of large joint probability distributions
and a look at many interesting learned parameters. I'll review the basic model
and some key areas of implementation.
Week 10:
Wed., 30 Nov., Student Practice Technical Talks (2 slots available --- ask now; first come, first served).
10:00-10:25
--- Michael Vorobyov
Title:
Shape
Classication Using Zernike Moments [PPT]
Abstract:
Zernike
moments have mathematical properties, make them ideal
image features to be used as shape descriptors in shape classication
problems. They have rotational invariant properties and could be made to be
scale and translational invariant as well. However, many factors need to be
considered to apply Zernike Moments correctly. In this paper I will show some
techniques, which could be used to optimally use Zernike Moments as a
descriptor, the results of these techniques proved to be up to 100 % accurate
in some cases of the experimentation.
10:25-10:50
--- Khanh Nguyen
Title:
Dynamic Program Slicing [PPT]
Abstract:
Program
slices are useful in debugging, testing, maintenance and understanding of
programs. On the contrary of the conventional notion of static slice, I will
present the concept of dynamic slice and several approaches for computing
dynamic slicing.
