| Wk | Topic | Due |
| 1 | Introduction, Administrative Details |
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| 2 | Why do an Honor Thesis | Assignment 1 |
| 3 | What is research, and why it is different from taking a class | |
| 4 | A professor's perspective: Ray Mooney | |
| 5 | The Nature of the Beast: Academic life in Computer Science |
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| 6 | The Nature of the Beast: Academic life in Computer Science |
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| 7 | A professor's perspective: Vitaly Shmatikov | Assignment 2: Review of Rebaudengo's paper |
| 8 | Discussion of Rebaudengo's paper | |
| 9 | Doing an Honor thesis | |
| 10 | A professor's perspective: Bill Mark | |
| 11 | The Road to an Honors Thesis | |
| 12 | A professor's perspective: Lorenzo Alvisi | Assignment 3 |
| 13 | Student panel: Matt Boes, Eric Wei, Grant Passmore, Kevin Resnick |
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| 14 | A professor's perspective: Calvin Lin | |
| 15 | Everything you wanted to know, but never dared to ask |