Schedule

DateTopicDue
Sep. 4 Course overview; Idea brainstorming
Sep. 11 Finding related work; Picking a project that's different
  • Submit and be ready to discuss five ideas
  • Sep. 18 What's achievable in Thesis II; Share ideas
  • Read Thesis IIs from previous years
  • Submit revised ideas and related work
  • Sep. 25 Prototyping and design choices
    Oct. 1 Informal presentations of project ideas
  • Submit expanded idea descriptions
  • Oct. 9 How to plan and analyze prototypes / experiments
    Oct. 16 Discuss initial prototype / experiment plans
  • Submit prototype plans
  • Oct. 23 Present initial prototype / experimental results
  • Submit initial prototype result analysis
  • Oct. 30 Discuss narrowed down projects
  • Submit finalized project idea writeup
  • Nov. 6 Present initial proof of concept
  • Submit draft of final writeup
  • Submit draft of final presentation
  • Nov. 13 Practice presentations
    Nov. 13 Practice presentations
    Nov. 27 No class—Thanksgiving
    Dec. 4 Final presentations
  • Submit final presentation
  • Dec. 11 Final presentations (continued)
  • Submit final document and proof of concept code
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