Details regarding discussions, writing, and editing projects throughout the semester will be filled in as rapidly as possible.
Assignments
Portfolio
Because the participants in the Spring 2009 instance of CMPSC580 are all also in CMPSC220, the notion of the portfolio was already well explored in that context. At no point was the portfolio for 580 well defined in writing. (It was defined and…
A Survey
This is, as much as anything, a chance for you to reflect a bit on your course of study, your experiences in computing, and what kinds of questions or areas of computing might interest you in terms of research.
First, if you need to, you can …
Discussion: What is research in computing?
DUE: Read and reflect for discussion on Friday, January 16th
When reading opinion pieces like Peter Denning's COMPUTER SCIENCE: THE DISCIPLINE, I read them with the mindset that the author is trying to convince me of their point-of-view. And I'm very…
