The following is my current guess as to the schedule for class this spring. It will evolve; check back often.
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| Thurs. Jan. 15 | Introduction, pictures, brainstorming of research topics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tues. Jan. 20 | SPAM: history, email infrastructure, spammer tools | A Brief History of Spam; Fooling and Poisoning Adaptive Spam Filters | web pointers; surveys (Wed.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thurs. Jan. 22 | Technical and social countermeasures | Understanding and Preventing SPAM; The Folly of Antispam Legislation | spam writeups | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tues. Jan. 27 | Wild and crazy ideas | be prepared to speak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thurs. Jan. 29 | Wild and crazy ideas (cont.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tues. Feb. 3 | Wild and crazy ideas (cont.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thurs. Feb. 5 | Library resources: Librarian Diane Cass, Guest speaker | Visit the UR libraries on line: home page; course resources and reserves; subject resources > Computer Science | presentation summaries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tues. Feb. 10 | Spam contest | spam mail, code (prev. Sun.); challenges (prev. Mon.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thurs. Feb. 12 | DMCA quiz; File sharing debate | The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (optionally, see related resources at Educause) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mon. Feb. 16 | RIAA forum | Hoyt auditorium | 8:00 pm
| Tues. Feb. 17
| RIAA/DMCA: | Provost Charles Phelps, Guest speaker
What's at Stake in MGM v. Grokster?
| File sharing papers
| Thurs. Feb. 19
| GPG quiz; | Revising the DMCA
NSF Grant Proposal Guide
| Mon. Feb. 23
| Computer Security: | Hao Chen, URCS Faculty recruiting candidate CSB 209
| 11:00 am
| Tues. Feb. 24
| Computer Security: | Liudy Bukys, URCS Research Scientist and former Assoc. Vice Provost for Computing, Guest speaker
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| Thurs. Feb. 26
| NSF Grants
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Scott synchronization proposal;
Nelson/Dwarkadas
“voluble environment” proposal
| ITRUG proposals
| Tues. Mar. 2
| Grant review panels (in class)
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| proposal rankings (by 6:00 am);
500-word summary of Bukys lecture
(email to TA [or to Prof. if taking course for writing
credit] by class time)
| Thurs. Mar. 4
| Brainstorming end-of-semester projects
| Mar. 8-12 | Spring Break | (no class)
| Tues. Mar. 16
| OS research: Prof. Scott
| Thurs. Mar. 18
| Presentations of project proposals
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| written proposal (one per group)
| Tues. Mar. 23
| Theory research: | Prof. Lane Hemaspaandra, Guest speaker
| Scott summary
| Thurs. Mar. 25
| Computer architecture research: | Prof. Sandhya Dwarkadas, Guest speaker
| Tues. Mar. 30
| Neural computation research: | Prof. Dana Ballard, Guest speaker
| Hemaspaandra summary
| Thurs. Apr. 1
| Project progress reports
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| Dwarkadas summary
| Tues. Apr. 6
| Project progress reports
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| Ballard summary
| Thurs. Apr. 8
| Datamining research: | Prof. Mitsunori Ogihara, Guest speaker Tues. Apr. 13
| Natural language research: | Prof. Daniel Gildea, Guest speaker
| Thurs. Apr. 15
| [Computer vision research: | Prof. Randal Nelson, Guest speaker] CANCELLED
| Ogihara summary
| Tues. Apr. 20
| final project reports
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| Gildea summary
| Thurs. Apr. 22
| final project reports, course evaluations
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| Tues. Apr. 27
| final project reports
| Fri. Apr. 30
| final written project reports due
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| (email to professor; one per group)
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