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CIS 640 Scientific Writing Workshop

Fall 2012

Assignment #1:  Writing about reading

Due MONDAY October 1, 2012 5pm. Send PDF to Prof. Douglas [Download assignment]

Assignment #1 Students Reviewers of "Best" Papers in Major Conferences

UNASSIGNED Linear vs. semidefinite extended formulations: exponential separation and strong lower bounds. S Fiorini, S Massar, S Pokutta. Proceedings 44th STOC 2012 [Download paper]
UNASSIGNED Data representation synthesis. P Hawkins, A Aiken, K Fisher, M Rinard. Proceedings ACM SIGPLAN 2011 [Download paper]
Shangpu ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing. Suman Nath. Proceedings MOBISYS 2012 [Download paper]
Amir Multi-resource allocation: Fairness-efficiency tradeoffs in a unifying framework. C Joe-Wong, S Sen, T Lan. Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2012 [Download paper]
Reza Towards a theory model for product search. Beibei Li et al. Proceedings WWW 2011 [Download paper]
Megan Observational and Experimental Investigation of Typing Behaviour using Virtual Keyboards on Mobile Devices. N Henze, E Rukzio, S Boll. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2012 [Download paper]
Ben Verifying multi-threaded software using SMT-based context-bounded model checking. L Cordeiro, B Fischer. Proceedings Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011 [Download paper]
Fernando How incomplete is your semantic web reasoner. G Stoilos, BC Grau, I Horrocks. Proc. of AAAI-10, 2010 [Download paper]
Mingwei They can hear your heartbeats: non-invasive security for implantable medical devices. Shyamnath Gollakota, Haitham Hassanieh, Benjamin Ransford, Dina Katabi, Kevin Fu. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference [Download paper]

EXAMPLE #1 of a Good Research Review [Download pdf]

EXAMPLE #2 of a Good Book Review [Download pdf]

Assignment #2:  Rewrite Assignment #1

Due TUESDAY October 9, 2012 Hand-in printed version to Prof. Douglas. [Download assignment]

Assignment #3:  Personal Writing Project

Due TUESDAY October 30, 2012 Hand-in TWO copies of the printed version to Prof. Douglas. [Download assignment]

Assignment #4:  Review Peer's Personal Writing Project

Due TUESDAY November 13, 2012 Hand-in TWO copies of the printed version to Prof. Douglas. [Download assignment]

Assignment #5:  Oral Presentation of Your Research

Due TUESDAY November 20, 2012 Email Prof Douglas your actual slides before class AND a pdf of the slides. [Download assignment]

EXAMPLE of a Good 20 minute talk: Video from Ali Ghodsi "Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types", USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (2011) [See READINGS on this website for the USENIX paper] [Download mp4 video]

EXAMPLE of a Good 20 minute talk: Slides from Ali Ghodsi "Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types", USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (2011) [See READINGS on this website for the USENIX paper] [Download pdf]

Assignment #6:  Personal Writing Project rewrite of assignment #3

Due FRIDAY December 7, 2012 by 5pm. Email Prof Douglas a pdf of the paper AND put a printed copy in her CIS mailbox. [Download assignment]