UCSC CMP 200 Fall '03

CMPS/CMPE 200 Fall 2003
Research and Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering

Announcements:

Homework 4 is posted.
If you do an exceptional job on homework 3, you only need to complete 1 other assignment to pass this course.
You will be notified by email if your hw 3 was found exceptional.
You will also be notified by email if your hw 3 was found unsatisfactory (Not Pass)

All new SOE graduate students (except EE students without TA offers) are expected to enroll in CE/CS200.
All CE students should enroll in CMPE200.
EE students with TA offers should enroll in CMPE200.
All CS, AMS and BME students should enroll in CMPS200.

Schedule

BME 200

NOTE: The discussion section may be relocated. Please watch for updates. (Last Update: 11/30/03)

Assignments

Assignment 1: Due Oct 24, 2003
Assignment 2 - postscript, Assignment 2 - acrobat : Due Nov 7, 2003
Assignment 3 - postscript, Assignment 3 - acrobat : Due Nov 21, 2003
Assignment 3 source
Assignment 4: Due Dec 5, 2003

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 Suresh Lodha and Alexander Brandwajn. If you are enrolled in Bioinformatics Program, please contact Kevin Karplus for discussion section, location, and hours. The TA for this course is Svetlana (lighty) Kagan.

Grading Policy. Do not take CMPE200 or CMPS200 for a Letter Grade. You must attend 8/10 lectures AND 8/10 sections to pass. You must also get a satisfactory in at least 3 of the 4 assignments.

Tentative Schedule of Topics and Speakers.

Texts

Useful links

Moss Scripts (on CATS system) - very well documented, but feel free to ask for more info/help.
Also scroll down for more Plagiarism Detection Tools.
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.
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
Graduate Handbook
Advice for dealing with difficult situations/students: Disruptive Students Distressed Students
Please note : these are meant for faculty. You should consult the instructor of your course if you encounter these types of problems as a TA.

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.)
Claire Gu	x9-5296 BE253B	claire@ee.ucsc.edu	EE Graduate Director
Kevin Karplus	x9-4250 BE315B	karplus@soe.ucsc.edu	BME Graduate Director
Suresh Lodha	x9-3773 BE241B	lodha@cse.ucsc.edu	CS Graduate Director
Marc Mangel	BE145	msmagel@ams.ucsc.edu	AMS Graduate Director
Anujan Varma	x9-3505 BE313B	varma@cse.ucsc.edu	CE Graduate Director
Michael Issaacson	x9-1722 BE359c	msi@soe.ucsc.edu	Graduate Programs Coordinator
Graduate office:
Mary Liu	x9-5737 BE361A	bjliu@soe	CS/AMS Graduate Assistant
Carol Mullane	x9-2576 BE361b	mullane@soe	CE/EE/Bioinformatics Graduate Assistant
Jodi Rieger	x9-3531 BE361c	jodi@soe	Graduate Program Assistant
Technical/Administrative Support:
Lynne Sheehan	x9-3959 BE138	sheehan@cse.ucsc.edu	SOE user accounts
Lyola Shybanova	x9-5840 BE115	lyola@cse.ucsc.edu	Undergraduate Records - To Schedule Office Hours
Julie Shapiro	x9-1396 BE379	julies@cse.ucsc.edu	Class Scheduler - To Schedule Review Sections

The CMP200 Web:
Copyright 2003; 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: lighty@cse.ucsc.edu