Overview

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Overview

• Week 1 - August 31, September 2

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Introductions

• About me
• About you
• Name
• Where are you from?
• What program are you in?
• Why are you takingthis class
• Make a name tag

EPP
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Syllabus

• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/
• Office hours
• TA
• Books
• Class schedule
• Subject to change - check web site for latest
  updates
• Guest speakers
• Research and communication skills
• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/skills.html
• Homework
• Project (to be discussed in more detail Sept 2)
• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/project.html
  
• Course requirements and grading
• Class mailing list
• http//cups.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/privacy-cl
  ass

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Course number

• Course is cross-listed as 15-508 / 17-801 /
  19-608 / 95-818
• Please switch to 17-801 (especially if you are a
  grad student signed up for 15-508)

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Cheating will not be tolerated

• You must do your own homework
• It is acceptable to discuss the reading
  assignments and general approaches to solving
  homework problems with your classmates
• It is not acceptable to discuss detailed homework
  answers or to copy homework answers from other
  students
• Hopefully you already knew this.

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Avoiding Plagiarism
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CMU Policy on Cheating and Plagiarism
Research and Communication Skills

• CMU Policy
• Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to,
  failure to indicate the source with quotation
  marks or footnotes where appropriate if any of
  the following are reproduced in the work
  submitted by a student
• A phrase, written or musical.
• A graphic element.
• A proof.
• Specific language.
• An idea derived from the work, published or
  unpublished, of another person.
• http//www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Cheating.ht
  ml

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This is serious
Research and Communication Skills

• Consequences of plagiarism in this class range
  from zero credit for entire assignment to failing
  the course to recommendation of university
  disciplinary action
• Publishers and professional societies have
  plagiarism policies too
• The Internet makes it easy to plagiarize
• Students are frequently cutting and pasting off
  the Internet without proper quotation and/or
  citations
• Students are buying papers off the Internet
• The Internet also makes it easy to catch
  plagiarism

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Avoiding plagiarism
Research and Communication Skills

• If you use someones specific words, put them in
  quotes and cite the source
• If you use someones ideas expressed in your own
  words, cite the source
• If you paraphrase, summarize in your own words,
  but still cite source
• Dont use same sentence structure with a few word
  substitutions
• If you use some of the sources words, put them
  in quotes
• When in doubt, put it in quotes and cite the
  source!

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Good resources on avoiding plagiarism
Research and Communication Skills

• http//www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/QPA_plagiaris
  m.html
• Includes nice examples of good and bad
  paraphrasing
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
  plagiar.html
• Includes good suggestions for how to avoid
  accidental plagiarism in your writing
• http//www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html
• http//sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm

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Creating a Bibliography and Citing Sources
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Creating a bibliography and citing sources
Research and Communication Skills

• Do you know how to create a properly formatted
  bibliography?
• Why is a list of URLs not a proper bibliography?

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Citing sources
Research and Communication Skills

• Whenever you take words, images, or ideas from
  another source you need to cite that source
• Direct quotes and paraphrases
• Images, photographs, tables, graphs
• Ideas, measurements, computations
• Also use citations as evidence to back up
  assertions
• If you use somebody elses words, you must quote
  them
• Short excerpts appear in quotes
• Long excerpts (3 or more lines) are introduced
  and then appear as indented text, often in a
  smaller font, single spaced
• If you leave out words in the middle use
• If you leave out words at the end use .
• If you substitute or add words, put them in
  square brackets
• If you add italics say emphasis added
• Failure to cite sources plagiarism

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Paraphrasing
Research and Communication Skills

• Usually paraphrasing ideas is preferable to
  quoting unless
• Exact wording is important
• You are quoting famous words
• You are critiquing or comparing specific words
  rather than ideas
• The original words say what you want to say very
  well and succinctly
• Usually paraphrasing lets you convey an idea more
  succinctly because you can focus on the part of
  the idea most relevant to your paper
• If you end up using some of the original words in
  your paraphrase, use quotes around those words

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Forms of citation
Research and Communication Skills

• Full bibliographic citation inline
• Typically used on a slide
• Footnote or endnote
• Used in legal writing, many books, some
  conferences and journals
• Inline short citation with bibliography,
  references cited section, or reference list
• Used by most technical conferences and journals,
  some books, most dissertations

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Citations in text
Research and Communication Skills

• Format depends on style you are using
• Usually a number or author and date, sometimes a
  page number reference too
• Citation usually goes at the end of the sentence
• Privacy is not absolute, (Westin 1967).
• Privacy is not absolute, 3.
• If Author is mentioned, in sentence, name does
  not appear in citation
• Westin (1967, p. 7) claims that individuals must
  balance a desire for privacy with a desire to
  participate in society.
• Multiple citations can appear together
• 3, 4, 5
• (Westin 1967 Cranor 2002)

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Footnotes
Research and Communication Skills

• Used heavily in legal writing
• Usually used sparingly in technical writing
• Each footnote appears only once
• If you reference the same source multiple times
  you must repeat the reference information,
  however you can abbreviate it on second and
  subsequent references and use ibid to indicate
  same as previous reference

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Creating a bibliography
Research and Communication Skills

• Similar rules apply to other forms of citation
  (footnotes, etc.)
• Pick an appropriate style and use it consistently
  throughout your paper
• Most conferences and journals have style
  requirements
• Popular styles Chicago/Turabian, MLA, APA, APSA
  (see http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/skills.
  htmlbib for pointers)
• Complete bibliographic entry includes author,
  title, date, publisher, place of publication,
  pages, volume number, etc.
• Bibliographic entries should be ordered - usually
  either alphabetically or in order referenced in
  the text

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Word processing tools
Research and Communication Skills

• Microsoft Word
• Word has built in support for footnotes and
  endnotes
• Use cross reference feature for numbered
  reference lists
• Third party bibliographic add-ons may be useful
• LaTeX
• Built in support for footnotes and endnotes
• Use Bibtex!

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Homework 1

• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/hw1.html
• Due September 7

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Course Preview Tour

• Privacy in words and pictures

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Semester Project
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Overview

• Individual or small group (up to 5 students)
• Pick your own project or one that I suggest
• All projects have final paper, presentation, and
  poster as deliverable
• Some projects may have other deliverables such as
  software, user interface designs, etc.

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Project schedule

• August 31/September 2 - Project assignment
  discussed in class?
• September 19 - Project brainstorming due (2
  points)?
• October 3 - One-paragraph project description due
  (3 points)?
• October 17 - Project proposal due (15 points)?
• November 14 - Draft paper due (5 points)?
• December 9, 3pm - Final paper due (60 points)?
• December 5, 7,? - Project presentations in class
  (10 points)
• December 14 - Poster fair (5 points)

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Suggested projects

• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/project.html
  
• Projects can be turned into a thesis or published
  paper
• Sign up for thesis research or independent study
  next semester
• Last year projects in this class resulted in 5
  papers submitted for publication (3 have been
  accepted, 2 are still under review)
• The Real ID Act Fixing Identity Documents with
  Duct Tape. To appear in I/S A Journal of Law and
  Policy for the Information Society, Fall/Winter
  2005.
• Counter-Forensic Privacy Tools A Forensic
  Evaluation. Under review.
• Peripheral Privacy Notifications for Wireless
  Networks. In Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on
  Privacy in the Electronic Society, 7 November
  2005, Alexandria, VA.
• Privacy in India Attitudes and Awareness. In
  Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy
  Enhancing Technologies (PET2005), 30 May - 1 June
  2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• PANAMA Privacy Assured Name-Addressable
  Messaging Architecture For Unlinkable Instant
  Message Conversations. Under review.
• One of the papers was also an INI thesis

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Selecting a research topic
Research and Communication Skills

• Brainstorm
• What are you interested in?
• What would you like to learn more about?
• What topics might be relevant to your thesis
  work?
• What topics might be relevant to your future
  career?
• Select a small number of candidate topics (Sept
  19)
• Read
• How much information seems to be available?
• Is this topic over done?
• What open questions are there?
• Do you still find this topic interesting?
• Do you have the skills necessary to pursue this
  topic?
• Focus (October 3 - one paragraph description)
• Select a topic
• Define a focused research question
• Read some more
• Conduct a literature review
• Adjust your topic as needed
• Write a project proposal (October 17)

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What does privacy mean to you?