Starting the Project

• Let's start scheduling times when you will meet with me.
  • Look at my schedule and pick a time when I don't have anything else scheduled.
  • Talk to me about it to see if that will work.
  • I will add meeting times as they are approved.
• Task 1, Pick out a topic.
  • Some of you may have something
    • If so, come and talk to me at our first meeting.
    • If not, we need to get looking.
  • How do I do this?
    • We will be discussing this, but in general
      • Is there something you have done in CS that you enjoy?
      • Do you want to push a class further?
      • That you want to learn more about?
    • Projects can be anything from
      • Practical: Can I build a system that will automate transfer and propagation of virtual machines for a cybersecurity course?
      • Inventive: Can I create a library that integrates chatGPT into an old video game (ie Moira)?
      • Theoretical: Can I show that P = NP? (This one might be a bit harder)
      • Applied: Can I build a set of cybersecurity labs that teach password security?
    • Some previous topics
      • Using ANNs and Smartwatch Data to Detect Competitive Swimming Stroke During Training.
      • A Heuristic Approaches to the TSP
      • Is it worth it to implement python routines in C++?
      • For my application, is C++ or RUST faster?
      • Building a CPU Simulation
      • Securesurf, A Key-ring Style Approach to Anti-phishing.
      • Human Simulated Chess using Temporal Difference Learning
      • A Comparison of GPU Based Sorting Algorithms.
      • Creating a Software Defined Networking Test bed.
    • You might consider looking
      • ACM's Special Interest Groups
      • IEEE Computer Society's Conference Schedule
      • ACM TechNews
    • The sky is the limit.
  • This is difficult and I don't expect you to do it instantly.
    • As we discuss research you will encounter many topics and many different sources for topics.
    • Keep an open eye.
• This is somewhat of an artificial problem
  • Generally a research advisor in grad school will have a list of projects.
  • The are generally related to their areas of research.
  • you can find out about what they are interested in by
    • Looking at the papers they have published.
    • Taking their classes.
    • Talking to their students.
    • Talking to them.
  • An example, Wenliang (Kevin) Du a computer security research expert at Syracuse.
• Task 2, Narrow the topic
  • It is almost certain that you will have a topic that is too broad.
  • You will need to refine this to get to something that you can manage in a semester.
  • This is true of real life too.
    • No one is a master of all of CS
    • No one is a master of all of AI
    • No one is a master of all of Generative AI
    • Someone, but very few are masters of prompt engineering, but they don't write one paper about this.
    • Look at the level of detail in the title of this paper
    • Or try any search on Google scholar.
  • We will discuss this in future classes.
  • We will work on narrowing your topic in our meetings private.
• Task 3, Background discovery
  • What has been done in the area?
  • What is the current work underway?
  • Build an annotated bibliography
  • Write a project proposal.
  • Present this proposal.
• Task 4, Perform the work
• Task 5, Present your results.