Administrivia

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Administrivia

• CS444N, Spring 2002
• Instructor Mary Baker

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Course details

• 3 units
• Limited enrollment (entrance exam required)
• Register for class giving us email address
• Subscribe to class email list, please
• Auditors may be okay, were not sure yet
• Grades 20 participation (readings), 30 exams,
  50 project

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People

• Mary Baker, mgbaker_at_cs.stanford.edu
• 414 Gates
• 650-725-3711
• Office hours 2-4pm Fridays?? (Not quite sure
  yet.)
• Emre Kiciman
• Office hours?
• Staff mailing list cs444n-staff_at_cs.stanford.edu

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Projects

• Important, start early
• Teams of 3 to 5 people
• Looking for projects with certain
  characteristics
• Significance
• Research component (lessons to learn)
• Doable in a quarter
• Demoable
• Interesting to you

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Projects, continued

• April 16th in-class project discussions
• A chance to propose projects and find people with
  similar interests
• Each person will propose at least one project
  that day and explain its significance and
  research components
• Some ideas on web page soon

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Projects, continued

• By April 23th
• Everyone will have aligned with a project group
• Each group will submit an email project proposal
• Demo day at end of quarter
• Projects with conference-submittable paper at end
  dont need further write-up (and get extra
  points)