Undergraduate 190 and 199 courses involve projects (190, group; 199, individual).

Graduate 276 and 590 courses are in research fields pattern recognition, image analysis, search and indexing, language descriptors, biomedical applications, mathematical modeling.

My teaching emphasizes report writing (based on terse writing), experimental computations, oral presentations and research skills. To learn about making captions for figures and headings for reports review samples at Brevity and in Materials.

Become familiar with the Engineering Library, 8th floor Boelter Hall as a resource. Interests leads to project ideas, as does past work [About Files and Site a detailed description of the varied CS 190 and CS 199 work done before Winter '98 much is in the 8th floor library on reserve].

In-progress items including reviews and reaction pieces to professional articles [Course Readings, Workshop Paper, Computer Scientists, On Being a Scientist] are used in the 190 course. The goal is verbal and written cooperation. This is to learn how to improve work from peer comments that lead to improvement suggestions and revised work directions.

A CS 190 project is a free-choice work item, hopefully one based on students' innovation and initiative. Each class is spent on varied supportive activities: communicating about work, intellectual property, starting a business, getting funding. Students' talks are on items of interest to them [starting points could be from articles, books, web pages, or discussions with course instructor about Interests.]

The CS 190 course activity involves selecting a job to work on, finding partners, developing a plan, executing tasks, and combining the work into a project report, items described in Administrative. Enrolled students work with one another by commenting in writing on each others' drafts, and interacting in class about the talks. Presentations are usually on work done or something new recently learned, organized, or illustrated. This activity simulates the way people work together in business. [Tips on talking appear in Technical Communication, Prepare, and Public Speaking.]

A prior CS 190 site had three parts: college an overview, K-12, and projects, a 199 student's view. Visuals at the prior 190, college and other sites come from students' CS 199 work. Several links above are in the table here.

Contact Information	About this Site	College	K-12	Projects
Inspired	Read.3	Rough Draft Work.5	Rate Report	Exercise 1