Computer Science 612
Course Policies and Requirements

• The Scribe Notes need to be written in latex. They should be complete and go beyond just copying what I write on the board. Notes should be ready within a week. Since I will be covering the book pretty closely in the first few weeks, there will not be any scribes needed. I will let you know when we will start covering outside material and assign a scribe for each lecture.

• Assignments will be posted on the Assignments page on a regular basis. There will be about five to six homework assignments. They will consist of written problems (e.g., design an algorithm, prove a lower bound, extend or modify a result presented in class).

• The project will include a written report and an oral presentation. This will involve reading a number of research papers on a particular topic and writing a critical survey of the papers, along with an in-depth comparison of the results. The oral presentation will be a 20 minute slide presentation summarizing the written report. More information, including ideas for topics, will be posted later in the Projects page.

• 40% -- Homeworks
• 40% -- Project
• 10% -- Scribe Notes
• 10% -- Class Participation

You may discuss concepts with other students as well as consult other written sources. This does not mean that you can obtain the solution completely from these sources. You are expected to actually think through and fully understand problem solutions; thus, the solutions you turn in must be written individually. If you get help from any source other than the text, be it a person or a book, you must reference the source. Plagiarism will be dealt with harshly.

The tentative grading scale that will be followed in this course is :
 

Note : Fractional scores will be rounded up.