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Introduction to Computer Science Grad School. Landon Cox August 29, 2016. Course format. Website http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall16/compsci701s Meeting time and place Mondays, 125p-240p, Physics 259 We may or may not use the full hour and 15 minutes Passing the course
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Introduction to Computer Science Grad School Landon Cox August 29, 2016
Course format • Website • http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall16/compsci701s • Meeting time and place • Mondays, 125p-240p, Physics 259 • We may or may not use the full hour and 15 minutes • Passing the course • Participate and complete ungraded assignments • Attend departmental talks • Announcements via compsci701@cs.duke.edu
All of human knowledge http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
What you know after elementary school http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
What you know after high school http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
In college you start to specialize http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
A Master’s deepens your knowledge http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Reading papers takes you to the edge http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
At the edge, you focus http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
At the edge, you focus http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Until one day, the edge gives. Ph.D. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Your view of the world during your defense http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Don’t forget the big picture Ph.D. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Research, research, research • You are here because you excelled in courses • Courses are a means to an end • Your ultimate goal is to expand human knowledge • i.e., to learn something that no one else knows • Start early • Talk to students and faculty • Attend group meetings • Take courses in areas you might be interested in
Team building (20 minutes) • You will have a team for the rest of the semester • Assigned randomly • Four or five members • Getting to know your team • Choose a team name • When and why did you decide to study CS? • List reasons you chose to pursue a Ph.D. in CS • Are there good or bad reasons to get a Ph.D.? • What will be different from undergrad? • Elect a team member to summarize (3 minutes)
Team building (20 minutes) • Team 1 • Vincentius vm76, Xiaonan xh61, Abraham ajf37, Shuzhi sy146 • Make CS Great Again! • Chris cds33, Andrew al309, Yuhao yl408, Ruiyi rz68 • Team Stylus • Yesenia yv10, Sudarshan sb453 Usama un6, Tiancheng tl173, Lesia ls305 • Team OK • Tianyu tw183, Dan df99, Congjie cs408, Taylor tpv, Sneha sm555
Jeopardy! in two weeks • Five requirement categories • RIP (Team 1) • Prelim (Team 2) • Quals (Team 3) • Teaching (Team 4) • Dissertation (Instructor) • Think of five questions of increasing difficulty • I’ll compile the questions • We’ll play in two weeks • http://www.cs.duke.edu/education/graduate/requirements