CS 86998/EE 6898/EECS 6898: Topics - Information Processing: From Data to Solutions, Fall 2014
Time: Friday, 1:10-3:40pm
Place: MUDD 825
Professors
Shih-fu
Chang (Office Hours: Friday 4-5pm) sfchang_AT_ee.columbia.edu,
212-854-6894
Julia Hirschberg (Office Hours: Monday 3-4pm)
julia_AT_cs.columbia.edu, 212-939-7004
Noemie Elhadad (Office Hours: by appointment) noemie.elhadad_AT_columbia.edu, 212-305-0509
Teaching Assistants
Laura Willson (Office Hours: Wednesday 11am-1pm, 7LW3 CEPSR/Shapiro) willson_AT_cs.columbia.edu
Anna Prokofieva (Office Hours: Tuesday 12pm-1pm, 7LW3 CEPSR/Shapiro) prokofieva_AT_cs.columbia.edu
Announcements | Academic Integrity | Description
Readings | Resources
| Requirements | Syllabus
Description
This course is designed for participants in the NSF IGERT program "From Data to Solutions". Students in the seminar may be IGERT Trainees, IGERT affiliates, or other students having the permission of one of the instructors. The course will consist of a series of presentations by faculty and staff at Columbia and CUNY who will describe interesting problems involving very large amounts of data (text, audio, image, video) that require interdisciplinary collaboration with faculty and students in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Psychology, Biomedical Informatics, Business and Journalism. Students taking the course will complete short reading assignments for each class, turn in one-page reports on each of the presentations, and prepare a final longer report on one of the problems presented as a final project. Actual experimental implementations will be welcome, but not mandatory. Some proposed projects may be selected and invited to continue in the following semester or summer under the supervision of the instructors or other participating faculty or researchers from industry. There are no prerequisites for the course and no exams; students will be selected for the class based upon a questionnaire to be administered the first day of class. Note that students who are members of the IGERT: From Data to Solutions project (Trainees and Affiliates) will have preference in enrollment. This is a required course for IGERT Trainees.
Requirements/Assignments
Students will be expected to complete all reading assignments before the class for which they are assigned. Students will prepare short reports on each of the presentations. These must be submitted in CourseWorks before the following class. Each student will prepare a longer report outlining an approach to one of the interdisciplinary problems describe in the presentations. There will be no midterm or final exam. Grades will be based on class participation, weekly short reports, and final report.
A guide to weekly reporting can be found here.
An example can be found here.
Information on project proposals, final project reports and presentations can be found here, here and here.
Grading
Class participation: 30%
Short Reports 30%
Final Report 40%
Academic Integrity
Readings
Required readings are available online from links in the syllabus below.
Announcements
The last weekly report will be for Week 12 (on Annie Dorsen's talk, due on 11/28). There is no report on Week 13.
All final reports will be due on Thursday December 11th at 4pm. Final presentations will be held on Thursday December 11th from 4-6:30pm and on 1:10-3:40pm Friday December 12th.
Final Project Proposals are due on Friday, October 31st at noon
