Welcome to Computer Science at UGA!

Welcome to Computer Science at UGA! Eileen Kraemer February 11th, 2011

Outline • Introductions • Grad school != undergrad • Planning and time management • Courses of interest • Choosing an advisor and topic

Introductions Eileen Kraemer – Department Head Suchi Bhandarkar – Graduate Coordinator Dan Everett – Undergraduate Coordinator

Office Staff • M. Jean Power • Business Manager, Boyd 413 • payroll, other financial matters • Elizabeth Williams • Administrative Specialist, Boyd 411 • Prox card access to building, keys for labs that require them • Claudia Sewell • Administrative Associate, Boyd 415 • grad program admissions, forms, status

Systems Support • Ken Powell, IT Manager • Piotr Misztal, Sys Admin • Nathan Steward, Sys Admin • Boyd 206 • Account issues, Prox card access to rooms in Boyd • See FAQ, email support@cs.uga.edu, ring bell to 206 (in that order)

Making the undergrad to grad school transition ….

Undergraduate Programs • Take classes • Get good grades • Fulfill requirements • Graduate

Graduate programs Coursework Professor Robinson will discuss; see web for details Attending seminars and conferences can help you to identify a problem. Your advisor will help you with this. • Implementation, Experimentation, and Evaluation • Details will depend on the problem you solve, but evaluation is critical – you need to be able to claim that you’ve done something new and better • Reading • First, to identify a problem of interest • Why is this problem important? • Why is it difficult /interesting? • Then, to expand your knowledge of related work in that area • What have other people done, what was good about their approach, what was lacking? Finally, graduate! Writing - publish your results in conference paper, journal paper - thesis / dissertation

Time Management • For each hour in class, expect to spend 3-4 hours out of class, on average. • Lighter early in semester, heavier later in semester. • Make a weekly schedule for yourself. Plan out time to work on each project, subject, obligation.

Schedule your time …

Make a list …

Advice on the process … • See “How to be a Good Grad Student” : • http://www.cs.indiana.edu/HTMLit/how.2b/how.2b.html

Research Methods for CS • CSCI 6950, 1 credit hour, Kraemer • “Lunch and Learn” format • Mondays at 1:25 • Brown bag, or buy pizza (subsidized) or other takeout • took place in the fall … you can see the web page with presentations and links to resources at: www.cs.uga.edu/~eileen/6950

CSCI 6950, Topics • The UNIX command-line interface • Basics of System Administration • Windows • Linux • Mac • Latex and Bibtex • End Note • Version control with svn

CSCI 6950 Topics, continue • Making the most of UGA library resources • The make utility • Debugging with gdb • How to install & use Eclipse • Setting up your dept. web page • Anatomy of a research paper • Responsible conduct of research, ....

Getting started • Process for assigning new students to assistantship duties is “in progress” – you’ll know something more in a week or so. • In the meantime: • Consider attending seminars and research meetings to learn about research groups

Research Meetings • Professors may advertise • look for email announcements • My advertisement of interest areas: • Psychology of Programming / Software Engineering for Concurrency / Use of Diagrams and Visualization • User Interfaces and Visualizations for Bioinformatics • send email with schedule if interested in joining weekly reading group • eileen@cs.uga.edu

Thanks! .. and a word from the ACM

Hamid Arabnia PhD, Kent at Canterbury, 1987 Ismailcem Budak Arpinar PhD, Middle East Technical University, 1998 Suchi Bhandarkar PhD, Syracuse University, 1989 Liming Cai PhD, Texas A&M, 1994 Julia Couto, PhD, Universidad Politecnico de Madrid, 1992 Faculty

Faculty, continued • Prashant Doshi • PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005 • Dan Everett • PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1976 • Shelby H. Funk • PhD, University of North Carolina, 2004 • Maria Hybinette • PhD, Georgia Tech, 2000 • Krzysztof Kochut • PhD, Louisiana State University, 1987

Faculty, continued • Eileen Kraemer • PhD, Georgia Tech, 1995 • Kang Li • PhD, Oregon Graduate Institute, 2002 • Tianming Liu • PhD, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2002 • John Miller • PhD, Georgia Tech, 1986 • Christopher Plaue • PhD, Georgia Tech 2009

Faculty, continued • Don Potter • PhD, South Carolina, 1987 • Lakshmish Ramaswamy • PhD, Georgia Tech, 2005 • Khaled Rasheed • PhD, Rutgers, 1998 • Bob Robinson – just retired • PhD, Cornell, 1966

Faculty, continued • Jeff Smith • PhD, NC State, 1978 • Thiab Taha • PhD, Clarkson University, 1982

Welcome to Computer Science at UGA!