CS 86998/EE 6898/EECS 6898: Topics - Information Processing: From Data to Solutions, Spring 2016
Time: Fridays 12pm-2pm
Place: CS Conference Room -- CSB 453
Professors
Shih-Fu
Chang (Office Hours: Monday 4-5, CEPSR 709) sfchang_AT_ee.columbia.edu,
212-854-6894
Julia Hirschberg (Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5, CSB 450 )
julia_AT_cs.columbia.edu, 212-939-7004
Noemie Elhadad (Office Hours: Friday 11-12, CS lounge) noemie.elhadad_AT_columbia.edu, 212-305-0509
Teaching Assistant
Sarah Ita Levitan (Office Hours: Tuesday 11:30-12:30, CEPSR 7LW3) sarahita_AT_cs.columbia.edu
Survey
Students who would like to be considered for registration for this course must fill out this survey by the end of the first class lecture on 1/22.
The instructors will approve registration for a selected group of students with appropriate backgrounds after reviewing the survey responses.
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 1.5-2 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. Students will also prepare questions for the speaker before each talk based on their readings. After the talk, each student will prepare a 1.5-2 page report, which must be submitted in CourseWorks before the following class. In the weekly report, we ask you to briefly summarize the talk and discussion, and outline an approach to one of the interdisciplinary problems described in the presentations.
There will be no midterm or final exam. Grades will be based on class participation, weekly 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: 20%
Weekly Reports 40%
Final Report 40%
*Absence policy: An unexcused absence will give you a zero for participation for that day. An excused absence will have no participation penalty.
Absences must be cleared with the professors in advance of the class being missed. Weekly reports are required even if you miss a class.
Academic Integrity
Readings
Required readings are available online from links in the syllabus below.
Announcements
Excellent reports from week 4: