| Post Date | Assignment | Documentation | Due Date | Submission Method | Percentage of Course Grade |
8/24/10 | Read Papers | For each class meeting, read the assigned papers before coming to class. | Every class meeting starting August 25th. | NA | |
| 8/24/10 | Read Papers Assigned for First Class Meeting | Write two paragraphs describing how the How to Read an Engineering Research Paper and Basic Research Skills in Computer Science are relevant to you. What are some things in those papers that you are already doing? What are some things you need to work on? | August 31, 2010 | email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu | |
| 8/24/10 | Paper Vote | As part of your class participation, select 5 papers from each of the following categories: Evaluation of Programming Models, Parallel Programming Model, and Sparse Programming Model, from the possible-papers.bib. All of the pdfs for the suggested papers can be found in a CSU-only accessible directory. You can provide nominations as one of your five in each category. | August 31, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu | |
| 8/30/10 | Paper Reviews | Review requirements and example. Each student will need to turn in 7 reviews over the course of the semester. Only one review can be submitted each week that papers are being discussed in the class. Each review must be submitted right before the class where the paper will be discussed. You can resubmit a review within 24 hours of the discussion about the paper. | Throughout semester | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu before class. | 30% |
| 8/24/10 | Paper presentation proposal | Come to an agreement with instructor about paper you will present in class. These will be assigned on first-come-first-served basis. | September 7, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu | |
| 9/7/10 | Paper presentation | Paper Presentation Guidelines page, also see Slides/06-proposal-writing.ppt.pdf | Dates posted for each student. | Email slides to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu and present in class. | 10% |
| 8/30/10 | Proposed tool example with preliminary project proposal | Project Description | Thursday September 9, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu before class starts. | 5% |
| 8/30/10 | Proposal and Tool Example | Project Description | Friday September 24, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu before 8pm. | 5% |
| 8/30/10 | Mini-Research Exam Proposal | Mini Research Exam Description | Thursday October 7, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu before midnight. | 5% |
| 8/30/10 | Verbal Status Report | Project Description | October 12 and 14 | Present in class | 5% |
| 8/30/10 | Intermediate Report | Project Description | Tuesday October 26, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu before class starts. | 5% |
| 8/30/10 | Mini-Research Exam Writeup | Mini Research Exam Description | Tuesday November 9, 2010 | Email to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu before class starts. | 10% |
| 8/30/10 | Final report and poster | Project Description | Report due Thursday December 16th at 6pm and Poster due date is December 9th (poster session 4:45-6pm) | Email report to mstrout@cs.colostate.edu and present poster during finals week. | 10% | |
