Introduction to Computer Science Grad School Landon Cox

Introduction to Computer Science Grad School Landon Cox August 29, 2016

Course format • Website – http: //www. cs. duke. edu/courses/fall 16/compsci 701 s • Meeting time and place – Mondays, 125 p-240 p, Physics 259 – We may or may not use the full hour and 15 minutes • Passing the course – Participate and complete ungraded assignments – Attend departmental talks • Announcements via compsci 701@cs. duke. edu

Visualizing your educational journey

All of human knowledge http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

What you know after elementary school http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

What you know after high school http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

In college you start to specialize http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

A Master’s deepens your knowledge http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Reading papers takes you to the edge http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

At the edge, you focus http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

At the edge, you focus http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Until one day, the edge gives. Ph. D. http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Your view of the world during your defense http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Don’t forget the big picture Ph. D. http: //matt. might. net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Research, research • You are here because you excelled in courses – Courses are a means to an end – Your ultimate goal is to expand human knowledge – i. e. , to learn something that no one else knows • Start early – Talk to students and faculty – Attend group meetings – Take courses in areas you might be interested in

Team building (20 minutes) • You will have a team for the rest of the semester – Assigned randomly – Four or five members • Getting to know your team – – – Choose a team name When and why did you decide to study CS? List reasons you chose to pursue a Ph. D. in CS Are there good or bad reasons to get a Ph. D. ? What will be different from undergrad? • Elect a team member to summarize (3 minutes)

Team building (20 minutes) • Team 1 – Vincentius vm 76, Xiaonan xh 61, Abraham ajf 37, Shuzhi sy 146 • Make CS Great Again! – Chris cds 33, Andrew al 309, Yuhao yl 408, Ruiyi rz 68 • Team Stylus – Yesenia yv 10, Sudarshan sb 453 Usama un 6, Tiancheng tl 173, Lesia ls 305 • Team OK – Tianyu tw 183, Dan df 99, Congjie cs 408, Taylor tpv, Sneha sm 555

Jeopardy! in two weeks • Five requirement categories – – – RIP (Team 1) Prelim (Team 2) Quals (Team 3) Teaching (Team 4) Dissertation (Instructor) • Think of five questions of increasing difficulty – I’ll compile the questions – We’ll play in two weeks • http: //www. cs. duke. edu/education/graduate/requirements