CSCI 597

Seminar in Computer Science Research

2006 - 2007

 


Prof. Suya You

Phone: (213) 740-4495       Email: suyay@imsc.usc.edu

Office: PHE 432                 Office hours: Monday, 2:00 – 3:00pm

 

Teaching Assistant

Quan Wang

Phone: (213) 740-5807       Email: quanwang@usc.edu

Office: PHE 108                  Office hours: Monday, 2:00 – 3:00pm

 


Course Summary

 

Description:

 

Computer science is a rapidly advancing field.  Over the years, the research field of computer science has been changing dramatically, from its initial focus on computation to many new areas such as embedded and intelligent computing, interaction of computer with humans and with the physical world, understanding the computational ability of the human brain, and computation at the molecular level, etc.

 

The goal of this seminar course is to introduce Ph.D. students to a broad range of computer science research.  First-year Ph.D. students are required to enroll for this course for the first 2 semesters of the Ph.D. Program.

 

Time and Location:

 

Monday 12:00 - 12:50pm, OHE 122

 

Class Format and Evaluation:

 

In general, a class will consist of a lecture given by an invited speaker, each lasting 40 minutes followed by the end 5-10 minutes for discussion and quiz.   Each lecture will be a tutorial on the given sub-area or specific topic of the speaker's research interest. 

 

There will be a set of representative references pointed by each speaker to assist students in gaining more understanding of the topic lectured in class.  Every student is expected to complete the assigned reading and be prepared to discuss and question in class.  In addition, there will be a short quiz about the contents of the given lecture at the last 5 minutes of each lecture.  The quiz will be collected immediately in the class.

 

The students are required to submit a one-page essay at the end of the year course to summarize the gain from this course.

 

Evaluation is based on: class participation (60%), quiz (30%), and final essay (10%).

 

Please be aware

-            On-time attendance is required.  To pass the class, students must obtain at least 80% attendance.

-            There will be no opportunity for submitting late assignment.

-            All assignments must be solved and written independently, or you will be penalized for cheating.  The USC Student Conduct Code prohibits plagiarism.  Any student violates the University standards of academic integrity are subject to disciplinary sanctions, including failure in the course and suspension from the University.

 


Schedules (Fall 2006)

 

Week

Date

Lecture

Speaker

Slides

1

08/21

Introduction

Suya

You

Slides

2

08/28

3D Scene Modeling

Suya

You

Slides

3

09/04

Holiday

 

 

4

09/11

Interaction and Computation

Alexandre Francois

Slides

5

09/18

Organic Computing

Christoph von der Malsburg

Slides

6

09/25

Interesting Problems in Computer Vision

Gerard Medioni

Slides

7

10/02

Technologies for Movie Content Analysis, Summarization and Skimming

C.-C. Jay Kuo

Slides

8

10/09

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Suya

You

Slides

9

10/16

Landing Hazard Detection

Larry Matthies

Slides

10

10/23

Interactive Dialogue for Simulation with Virtual Characters

David Traum

Slides

11

10/30

Computational Science at Petaflops

Aiichiro Nakano

Slides

12

11/06

Reconfigurable Robot

Wei-Min She

Slides

13

11/13

Research in Graphics and Virtual Humans at the ICT

Bill Swartout

Slides

14

11/20

Mechanism Design: Truthful and Frugal Auctions

David Kempe

Slides

15

11/27

Star Trek’s “Picard Maneuver” and Asimov’s “Runaround”: Security and Safety in Multiagent Systems

Milind Tambe

Slides

 


Schedules (Spring 2007)

 

Week

Date

Lecture

Speaker

Slides

1

01/08

How to Get a Ph.D.

Michael Arbib

Slides

2

01/22

Computer Vision

Zhang, Kim, Dinh, Lin

Slides

3

01/29

Natural Language Processing Techniques (with an emphasis on Machine Translation)

Postolache,

Ravi, Riesa

Slides

4

02/05

Software Engineering for Large Scale Software Systems

Tikidjian, Tan, Garcia, Nguyen, Popescu

Slides

5

02/12

Online Algorithms, an introduction and important results

Salek, Vaswani, Shayandeh, Demertzi

Slides

6

02/26

Biologically inspired Vision on a Modular reconfigurable system

Elazary, Binney, Ranasinghe

Slides

7

03/05

Issues in Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction

Mulkar, Michelson, Bhagat

Slides

8

03/19

Character animation in games

Goundan, Thukral, Ye

Slides

9

03/26

Path Planning

Nash, Daniel

Slides

10

04/02

Nonverbal Behavior Generator for Embodied Conversational Agent

Jang, Lee

Slides

11

04/09

Workflow orchestration and mining for integrated asset management in smart oilfields

Sun, Zhu, Xia, Murtaza

Slides

12

04/16

Introduction of Ontology

Lee, Lim, Al-Ghanmi

Slides

13

04/23

Computational Model for Motor Adaptation

Geographical Information Systems

Lee

Ghaemi

Slides

14

04/30

Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Chiang, Lee

Slides

 

Notice

   Each talk will be 40 minutes, and leave the end 5 - 10 minutes for question and quiz

   Prepare 3-5 questions with answers related to the content of given talk

   Submit your slides and questions to TA prior to TWO (2) weeks of your time slot

    Final essay is due on 04/23/2007 midnight.  Submit it by email to TA   

 


Related Web Sites

 

¨     Research at Computer Science Department of USC

¨     Research at USC Information Science Institute (ISI)

¨     Research at USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)

¨     Research at USC Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC)

¨     Literature search

o    CiteSeer (Scientific Literature Digital Library)  

o    Google Scholar

o    DBLP (Digital Bibliography & Library Project)

o    NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library)

o    IEEE Xplore

o    ACM Digital Library

o    ISI Web of Knowledge

o    USC Online Library

 


Academic Integrity Policy

 

The USC Student Conduct Code prohibits plagiarism. All USC students are responsible for reading and following the Student Conduct Code.

In this course we encourage students to study and discuss together. However, all work submitted for the class is to be done individually, unless an assignment specifies otherwise.

Some examples of what is not allowed by the conduct code: copying all or part of someone else's work, and submitting it as your own; giving another student in the class a copy of your assignment solution; consulting with another student during an exam. If you have questions about what is allowed, please discuss it with the instructor.

Violations of the Student Conduct Code will be filed with the Office of Student Conduct, and appropriate sanctions will be given.

 

 

 

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