Administrivia

CS444N, Spring 2002

Instructor: Mary Baker

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 Course details
• 3 units
• Limited enrollment (entrance exam
required)
• Register for class giving us email address
• Subscribe to class email list, please
• Auditors may be okay, we’re not sure yet
• Grades: 20% participation (readings), 30%
exams, 50% project
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 People
• Mary Baker, mgbaker@cs.stanford.edu
– 414 Gates
– 650-725-3711
– Office hours 2-4pm Fridays?? (Not quite sure yet.)
• Emre Kiciman
– Office hours?
• Staff mailing list: cs444n-staff@cs.stanford.edu

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 Projects
• Important, start early
• Teams of 3 to 5 people
• Looking for projects with certain characteristics:
– Significance
– Research component (lessons to learn)
– Doable in a quarter
– Demo’able
– Interesting to you

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 Projects, continued
• April 16th in-class project discussions
• A chance to propose projects and find
people with similar interests
• Each person will propose at least one
project that day and explain its significance
and research components
• Some ideas on web page soon

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 Projects, continued
• By April 23th
– Everyone will have aligned with a project
group
– Each group will submit an email project
proposal
• Demo day at end of quarter
• Projects with conference-submittable paper
at end don’t need further write-up (and get
extra points)