ECE 900 Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Fall 2009 |
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Course schedule (unless otherwise noted in "Research talks" table below):
Here is the syllabus. Parking directions for speakers: Unless otherwise agreed with your host, you will park in the Kingsbury Hall visitor parking. You can click on pushpin number 1 and get directions to it from your starting location. You can also click on the "Bird's eye view" link at the top of the map to get a nice aerial view of where you will park. There are also images on the left showing views from the four pushpin locations. |
Assignments
| Assignment | Date assigned | Due date | Notes |
| Read chapters 1-3 in textbook | 09/08/09 | 09/15/09 | |
| Select fiction book to read from list. | 09/08/09 | 09/10/09 | Email selection to the instructor by class time on due date. |
| Select research topic for background paper. | 09/08/09 | 09/15/09 | Email selection to the instructor by class time on due date. |
| Write a 100-200 word research problem statement for your background paper. | 09/15/09 | 09/29/09 | Email statement to the instructor by class time on due date. |
| In preparation for Zeljko and Oskar's poster presentations, read their Ubicomp 2009 papers (links below). | 09/17/09 | 09/24/09 | Prepare at least one question to ask for each poster presentation. |
| Review the UIST poster example gallery prepared by Patrick Baudisch. | 09/17/09 | 09/24/09 | How do the posters prepared by Zeljko and Oskar stack up against the posters in the gallery? |
| Create a del.icio.us account. Save and tag links to at least five people active in the area of research you will describe in the background paper. | 09/17/09 | 09/29/09 | Email the link to your account to the instructor by class time on due date. Here are my tagged links on del.icio.us. |
| In preparation for Paul Harvey's talk, read articles linked to under Notes below. | 09/29/09 | 10/06/09 | |
| Write a 100-200 word goal statement that builds on your problem statement. | 09/29/09 | 10/06/09 | Email statement to the instructor by class time on due date. |
| Review and edit your research problem statement. | 09/29/09 | 10/08/09 | Print out a copy and bring to class. |
| In preparation for Nicholas Kirsch's talk, read articles linked to under Notes below. | 10/06/09 | 10/15/09 | |
| Write a 100-200 word review of two papers you plan to include in your background paper. | 10/20/09 | 10/27/09 | Email review to the instructor by class time on due date. Also, print and bring to class for discussion. |
| Watch "How to give a great research talk" (MSR session for summer interns organized by John Krumm). Pick two items from each of the four presenters (for a total of eight items) that you liked and that you intend to incorporate into your presentations. | 11/03/09 | 11/10/09 | Email the list of eight items to the instructor by class time on due date. Also, print and bring to class for discussion. |
| Write book report document and literature review document. Create book report presentation and literature review presentation. | 11/10/09 | 12/01/09 | For documents use the CHI extended abstract format. The template can be found on the CHI 2010 website. |
Slides
Research talks to attend (local and off-site)
local upcoming |
local past |
off-site upcoming |
off-site past |
Date/Time |
Location |
Presenter |
Topic |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/24/09 (Thursday) 2 PM |
Morse 229 | Zeljko Medenica, Oskar Palinko | Exploring In-Car Augmented Reality Navigation Aids: A Pilot Study Towards Storytelling with Geotagged Photos on a Multitouch Display |
1 minute madness pitch and poster presentation |
| 10/06/09 (Tuesday) | Kingsbury S342 | Paul Harvey | Using research to solve workplace problems - the case of employee entitlement |
Want to work well?: Leave your ego at the door, UNH professor finds in new research |
| 10/15/09 (Thursday) 2 PM |
Kingsbury S320 | Nicholas Kirsch | Experimental Analysis of Power Control and Element Spacing for Unobtrusive MIMO Antenna Systems |
An Overview of MIMO Communications (read at least through Section IV) Experimental Evaluation of Game Theoretic Power Allocation in MIMO Ad-hoc Networks |
| 10/23/09 (Friday) 1 PM |
Patil/Kiva Seminar Room, Stata Center, MIT | Steve Whittaker | This talk is part of the CSAIL HCI Seminar Series, Fall 2009. Many thanks to Rob Miller for generously hosting us. |
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| 11/06/09 (Friday) 1 PM |
Patil/Kiva Seminar Room, Stata Center, MIT | Michael Muller | Patterns of File-Sharing in an Enterprise: Authors, Contributors, Collectors, and Lurkers | This talk is part of the CSAIL HCI Seminar Series, Fall 2009. Many thanks to Rob Miller for generously hosting us. |
11/18/09 (Wednesday) |
Kingsbury N101 | Dennis O'Brien | Engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Dennis O'Brien, is a UNH alum (BSEE '75, MSEE '77) and Chief Electronics Engineer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
| 12/10/09 (Thursday) 2 PM |
Kingsbury S320 | Eric Fossum | CMOS Image Sensors: Making Digital Cameras See | Dr. Fossum is the recepient of the 2009 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award. |
