TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

In addition to the lectures, the students are also expected to watch the interviews in Research Diaries.

Semester Timeline
Date	Topic
8/24/2015	Course Introduction	Lecture 1
8/26/2015	PhD Research and Milestones	Lecture 2
8/31/2015	Anatomy of a Research Paper	Lecture 3
9/2/2015	Paper Reviews	Lecture 4
9/9/2015	Paper Reviews Continued	Lecture 5
9/14/2015	CS Experiments	Lecture 6
9/16/2015	Metrics and Experiments	Lecture 7
9/21/2015	Conference Organization, Experiments, Papers	Lecture 8
9/23/2015	Experiments and Metric Design	Lecture 9
9/28/2015	Metrics	Lecture 10
10/5/2015	Experiments in Uncontrolled Environments	Lecture 11
10/7/2015	Sampling Bias	Lecture 12
10/12/2015	Paper claims	Lecture 13
10/14/2015	Standardized Experiments, Metrics, and Datasets	Lecture 14
10/19/2015	Co-authorship	Lecture 15
10/21/2015	Level of Details	Lecture 16
10/26/2015	Advice for Research Students	Guest: Prof. Rakesh Verma
10/28/2015	How to write good research papers?	Guest: Prof. J.F. Paris
11/02/2015	Writing 1	Guest: Ms. Cari-Sue Wilmot	Slides
11/04/2015	Writing 2	Guest: Ms. Cari-Sue Wilmot	Slides
11/09/2015	Crafting a Poster
11/11/2015	Visualization	Guest Prof. Guoning Chen
11/16/2015	Intellectual Property
11/18/2015	Giving Technical Talks	Guest Prof. Jaspal Subhlok	Slides
11/23/2015	In-class TPC meeting
11/30/2015	ERCS Conference	Keynote: Prof. Barbara Chapman