Effective Strategies for Project Proposals and Research Endeavors
This proposal outlines the importance of project proposals, providing insights into Heilmeier's Catechism for evaluating projects and advice for conducting research endeavors effectively. It emphasizes meeting feedback, discussing missed class reviews, and complying with grading criteria. The focus is on addressing key questions, risks, payoffs, costs, and timelines associated with project implementation.
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Miscellaneous: Project Proposal
Project Proposals Graded by Tarique and me Proposals themselves We ve been very critical Take feedback seriously: come meet us to discuss Don t stress about it Also annotated with the number of class reviews you ve missed If you ve missed a lot (beyond the 3 free ones), come talk to us.
Advice for any Research Endeavor: Heilmeier s Catechism Well-known scientist (1936-2014) Head of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Developed a set of criteria to evaluate project proposals These are useful criteria no matter what project you are aiming to accomplish Applies to research or engineering Applies to CS or other engineering fields Applies in all walks of life!
Heilmeiers Catechism What are you trying to do? How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? What's new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? Who cares? If you're successful, what difference will it make? What are the risks and the payoffs? How much will it cost? How long will it take? What are the midterm and final "exams" to check for success?
Heilmeiers Catechism for CS Research What are you trying to do? How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? What's new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? Who cares? If you're successful, what difference will it make? What are the risks and the payoffs? How much will it cost? How long will it take? What are the midterm and final "exams" to check for success? Why is it technically difficult? Five step recipe for paper intros What is the problem? Why is it important? Why is it hard? Why do current approaches fail? What are the key ideas?
Project Midterm Report Project mid-term report due on 30th October at midnight Format Up to 4 pages in sig-alternate format, addressing What is the problem Why is it important Why is it hard What is your key idea or approach Any initial results already shown If not, provide a sketch of idea/algorithm If not, provide a architecture diagram of the system The more detailed the better What is the important related work and why is it insufficient for your problem How will you evaluate it Counts for 30% of your project grade.
Project Report Some of you have never written technical papers before, so I thought I should cover the basics so that you re all on an equal footing Also, some of you are used to writing other styles of papers, so making sure you understand the systems/database style. Many Resources on how to write papers (if you are curious): http://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/paper-writing.html http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~taoxie/publications/writepapers.pdf http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~taoxie/advice.htm
