CS 601 Project 1

• An abstract, usually written last.
• Introduction, which describes why the problem is important
• Prior work, which describes what other people have done.  This can be pretty short if you're describing something you built, or occupy most of the paper if you're describing other people's work.
  
• Main body, which depends on exactly what kind of paper you're writing.
• A review paper summarizes the main things other people have worked on.
• A theory paper presents a new way to think about or model an important problem.
• An experimental paper presents the results from an experiment.
  
• Conclusions, where you talk about what your results mean, and how they could be extended
• References, formatted properly.
  

     April 2018       
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21   <- Outline review
22 23 24 25 26 27 28   <- Paper draft review
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      May 2018        
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       1  2  3  4  5   <- Final exam week

• Send me a rough outline Friday, April 20.
  
• We'll do a review session on Friday, April 27 in class--bring an anonymized paper copy for your classmates to read and red pen.
  
• The final draft is due Thursday, May 3, the day of the final exam--have the final "camera ready" PDF finished by midnight.
  

Topic

• Run an experiment to actually measure something you're interested in: time, energy, bytes, etc.
• Design a physical simulation or system simulator. 
  
• Expand on one of the homeworks or lecture topics from this or another class. 
  
• Do a quick scaled down rough draft of your master's project.  (Clearly less depth is expected of this project!)
  
• An expanded version of project 0, either integrating the prior work into a more coherent narrative, or implementing and testing something you covered in the literature.