CS398T Fall 2007 Course Schedule

Taylor 3.128 at 12:30 pm, Mondays and Fridays

Unless otherwise noted in the "date" column below

Lec #
Date
 
Topic 
Faculty 
Assigned Reading
 1 8/31 F Welcome to the Department, Course Overview, Q&A J Moore  
2 9/7 F Succeeding in Graduate School Doug Burger and J Moore  
3 9/10 M TA Training 1 Assoc. Chair Greg Lavender  
  9/14 F Successful publishing Doug Burger and J Moore "The Task of the Referee"
Sample unpublished paper submission
Sample unpublished paper reviews
4 9/17
ENS 109
M

TA Training 2

Doug Burger and J Moore  
  9/21 F Successful Writing and Speaking William Cook, Doug Burger, and J Moore "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
Slides from William Cook
5 9/24 F1 TA Training 3
Assoc. Chair Greg Lavender  
  9/28 F Discussion on Writing, Reviewing, and Submitting Papers Doug Burger  
6 10/1 M Teaching Assistant Panel
Julian Bishop, Jeff Diamond, Simha Sethumadhavan, Jacob Schrum  
  10/5 F Microprocessor Verification Prof. Warren Hunt  
7 10/8 M Panel Discussion: Does AI Belong in Systems? Prof. Emmett Witchel
Prof. Peter Stone
 
  10/12 F

Computer Security
Algorithms and Complexity

Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov
Prof. Vijaya Ramachandran
 
8 10/15 M Machine Learning & Multiagent Systems: From Robot Soccer to Autonomous Traffic
Learning for Natural Language Understanding
Prof. Peter Stone

Prof. Ray Mooney
 
  10/19 F Graduate Student Research Panel Lily Mihalkova, Matt Taylor, Justin Brickell, Serita Nelesen  
9 10/22 M Is Network a Computer? Writing Programs that run over the Internet
Prof. Jay Misra

 
  10/26 F Answer set programming Prof. Vladimir Lifschitz  
10 10/29 F Panel Discussion on Transactional Memory: Is it Worth a Damn or Not? Prof. Emmett Witchel, Hany Ramadan, Chris Rossbach, Don Porter, Owen Hofmann  
  11/2 F

ACL2: Software Verification
Future Computer Architectures and Systems

Prof. J Moore
Doug Burger
 
11 11/5 M Neural networks and evolutionary computation
Learning Theory
Prof. Risto Miikkulainen
Prof. Adam Klivans
 
  11/9
Class will be in TAY 3.128.
F Graduate Student Panel Nate Kohl, Yuliya Lierler, Jared Davis, Don Porter, David Kitchen  
12 11/12 M Automatic Programming
The Biological Data Storm: Saving Lives in the Next Revolution
Prof. Gordon Novak
Prof. Dan Miranker
 
  11/16 F Research talk #1
Research talk #2
Prof. William Cook
Prof. Don Batory
 
13 11/19 M Panel Discussion: Parallel Programming Research Prof. James C. Browne
Prof. Calvin Lin
Prof. Robert van de Geijn
Prof. Keshav Pingali
 
14 11/26 M Unified Approach to Verification
Computational Biology
Prof. J.C. Browne & Prof. Calvin Lin
Prof. Tandy Warnow
 
  11/30 F ACL2: Software Verification
Stream Processors for Gaming, Graphics,
and General Throughput Computation
Prof. J Moore
Mattan Erez
 
15 12/3 M CS398T discussion J Moore  
  12/7 F Embodied Cognition
Matching: Algorithms and Applications

Prof. Dana Ballard
Prof. Greg Plaxton