UCSC CMP 200 Fall '02

CMP 200 Fall 2002
Research and Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering

Wednesdays 9:30-12:10pm
Nat. Sci. Annex 101 (small building between Sinsheimer and Science Library)

(Last Update: 11/19/02)

Assignments

Assignment 3: Due November 13 2002
Assignment 2: Due Oct 30, 2002
Oren Patashnik's BiBTeXing
Assignment 1: Due Oct 16, 2002
Here is the actual latex file used to generate the document from assignment 1.

Introduction

This course is a joint venture for the new graduate students of the Computer Science and the Computer Engineering Departments. The intent of the course is to prepare students for teaching and research in the School of Engineering. This web page is also contains links to other resources of interest to graduate students. The course is being co-taught by Martine Schlag and David Helmbold. The TA for this course is Daniel Merl.

Grading Policy. Do not take CMPE200 or CMPS200 for a Letter Grade.

Tentative Schedule of Topics and Speakers.

Texts

Useful links

Martine's slides from the presentation on giving conference and seminar talks.
Ethan Miller's presentation on security
A 5 Step plan for better journal writing.
From Wesley Mackey's lecture on CATS computing:
Instructional Computing Homepage
CATS' Unix help page: for help on AFS and other ATHENA related stuff
From our discussion on graduate funding:
The Computational Biology page maintains a list of fellowship opportunities (useful for non-bioinformatics people too)
The CMP 200 newsgroup
The online CATS Support Center
Community of Science webpage.
Questions or inquiries should be referred to Donna M Riggs
Online CATS guide to Managing class-course lockers for instructors and TAs
The Baskin Center Policy about Cheating (postscript).
UCSC Policy on Academic Dishonesty.
UCSC Policy on Research Integrity.
The Center for Teaching Excellence which offers midquarter TA feedback and videotaping for improving your teaching abilities.
A guideline for creating class web pages in SOE.
Environmental Health and Saftey web Site. Check out the Office Ergonomics page for information about ergonomics.
Teaching Assistant Contract
Advice for dealing with difficult situations/students: Disruptive Students Distressed Students
(These are meant for faculty. You should consult the instructor of your course if you encounter these types of problems as a TA.)
Track Keiko's progress: Ocean Futures and Humane Society.

Plagiarism Detection Tools

Turnitin.com: Great for comparing research pages or reports. Not so useful for code. For more information on how to set up an account, see instructional computing's help page.
MOSS: my code comparison tool of choice, works on C, C++, java, ML, lisp, scheme, pascal, ada, haskell, fortran, ascii, vhdl, html, perl, and matlab. You submit the files to their server and they email you a link to the results.
SIM: the default code comparison tool at UCSC. This page has a description of how to use SIM, including various scripts to make it more user friendly. Only accessible from SOE machines.

Information of interest to graduate students doing research:

The UCSC Library System.
Richard Hughey's home page contains information about using LaTeX (only accessible from SOE machines).
NAS page on professional ethics
Sandra Pacheco, spacheco@cats.ucsc.edu, can provide information on applying for and obtaining fellowships.
Ian Parberry's guides. He has a guide to public speaking, and a guide to reviewing. Another useful guide to preparing a talk is P.R. Halmos's How To Talk Mathematics in the Notices of the AMS, vol 21 #3, April, 1974.

Important people who can help you (there are many more, these are just a few)

Your Advisor		???@soe	Professor ??? (Check with Carol Mullane if you don't know who this is.)
Carol Mullane	x9-2576 BE223	mullane@soe	SOE Graduate Programs Manager
Anujan Varma	x9-3505 BE313B	varma@cse.ucsc.edu	CE Graduate Director
David Helmbold	x9-2016 BE319	dph@cse.ucsc.edu	CS Graduate Director (Fall Quarter)
Suresh Lodha	x9-3773 BE241B	lodha@cse.ucsc.edu	CS Graduate Director (Winter & Spring Quarters)
Claire Gu	x9-5296 BE253B	claire@ee.ucsc.edu	EE Graduate Director
Martine Schlag	x9-3243 BE317B	martine@soe.ucsc.edu	SOE Graduate Coordinator
Kevin Karplus	x9-4250 BE315B	karplus@soe.ucsc.edu	Chair, Bioinformatics Graduate Program (pending approval)
David Draper	x9-1295 BE147	draper@ams.ucsc.edu	Chair, Applied Math & Statistics Graduate Program (planned)
Ma Xiong	x9-5745 BE237	maxiong@soe.ucsc.edu	faculty/instructional support, conference room scheduling
Lynne Sheehan	x9-3959 BE138	sheehan@cse.ucsc.edu	SOE user accounts

The CMP200 Web:
Copyright 2002; School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Portions of the CMP200 Web may be reprinted or adapted for academic nonprofit purposes, providing the source is accurately quoted and duly credited.

Comments to: martine@cse.ucsc.edu