CSE 225 Topical and Course Project Report
Paper Reading and Participation
in Discussions
Students are expected to read all of the papers in the syllabus
and participate actively in discussion in class. Classes will be organized to direct questions
at individual students (come prepared!), and to have a lively discussion of the
issues.
Topical Reports (Sign-up List)
For each major section of the course, a two teams of three
students each will be identified to write a summary of the area. Each student in the class will participate in
one of these teams. This summary should
include the following elements:
- Concise
definition of the important problems in the area
- Survey
of the major approaches to the problem
- Assessment
of the state of the art in the area
- Identification
of at least four major research problems or challenges to be explored
These reports will be approximately 20 pages in length and
will cover material for one of the first four course sections (Vision, Dynamic
Applications, Resource Sharing, and Configurable Networks). They are intended to not only reiterate the
material in the papers (i.e. a book report), but to cover additional technical papers
as needed. Significant analysis and
understanding which is translated into clear exposition is expected.
Topical reports are due one week after coverage of the topic has been completed in the course lecture.
Project Reports
Each student in the class will participate in a course
project involving 2-4 students. This,
combined with the topical report, represent the major part of the course work. In the
process of doing a course project, each team will be evaluated on two documents
and a presentation. These are:
- Project
Proposal (due end of 3rd week of class)
- clear
objectives - questions to be answered, research apparatus to be built,
code to be understood)
- the team
(who’s on it and contact information – email, phones, etc.)
- clear
responsibilities (who’s going to take lead for what); which will
evolve over time
- Technical
Definition of the project
- Project
focus: What are the questions?
- Infrastructure
and Strategy: How are the questions going to be addressed? (i.e. the software,
systems, resources and experiments)
- Expected
Outcomes: What will we know that is new at the end of the project?
- Related
Work Section (summarize background material)
- Detailed
Project Plan
- Obtaining
access to the needed computing resources
- Obtaining
the relevant software
- What
will be built/configured (and software design)
- The implementation and testing plan for
that design What experiments will be done
- What
are the fallbacks if something doesn’t work out
- Specific
milestones that are clearly defined and provide reasonable time for
unexpected problems
- Project
Presentation (last week of class)
- A 15-minute,
Succinct Presentation of the Material in Project Final Report
- Project
Final Report (due at end of classes)
- Elements
from the Project Proposal
- Description
of What was Accomplished
- Experimental
Results
- Analysis
and Summary of Results