CS 779: Splines | Computer Science Department

Last Updated: March 6, 2009

Project

The course notes describe the final project. You will either give a demonstration or a talk for your project, either of which will be open to the entire class. The project is worth 40% of your grade; 5% will be based on a project proposal presentation you give about your project to the class, and 35% is for the project itself.

Goal: To learn something on your own

The primary goal of the project is to learn something on your own. This will require reading some papers and either implementing something or writing a short paper about what you learn.

Project Proposal

The project proposal presentations will be in mid- to late-March. The structure of your proposal should be similar to the following:

Introduction (problem statement, etc.)
Discussion (mathematical details about the problem, etc.)
Proposal (what you intend to do, what you expect to learn).

Project Final Submission

The following are needed to submit your project:

Implementation	Written
Demonstration	Talk
Web page	Paper

The demonstration/talk are open to the rest of the class. For a demonstration, you should print your webpage to give me before your demonstration; see the course notes for additional details on what should be in your webpage. For a talk, you should get me a copy of your paper at least 2 days before your talk.

Your mark starts at 65 (out of 100) for having completed your base project and successfully convinced me that your learned something significant. See the course notes for suggestions for things to do to get higher than a 65/100 on your project.

Special note: To get above a 90, you have to do something new in a research sense.

Special, special note: if you do something significant enough that it warrants submitting a publication about it, you will receive a 100 in the course.

Foot note: No one in past terms has received above 90 for their project.