:index:`Project` ================================================================ Four-credit students will write a final project. Your writeups must be submitted using the templates of the `IEEE Transactions on Computers `_. You will be graded on formatting. Your writeups should be cumulative: the writeup for part 2 should be added to the end of the writeup for part 1, and so on. Each new page should add no more than 1 additional page of text, not counting figures, tables, titles and bibliography. Thus, for example, writeup 1 should be no more than 1 page + titles, figures, bibliography; writeup 2 should be no more than 2 pages + titles, figures, bibliography; and so on. Each writeup will be submitted BOTH to a google drive (so your teammates can see it), and to Gradescope (so the Professor can mark it "done"). Grading of part (a) submissions is based on scientific correctness (are all of your statements backed up by citations and/or by your own experiments?), clarity (is your language and formatting clear?), and creativity (have you chosen an interesting problem, and an interesting way to try to solve it?). For more information about how to write technical papers, see, for example, the IEEE `Write Your Paper `_ page. For part (b), you'll be graded based on whether you seem to have made a serious attempt to offer constructive criticism to your teammates (destructive criticism will receive negative points). For more information, see, for example, the IEEE `Ethics in Peer Review `_ page. Teammates will be assigned, immediately after submission of assignment 1(a), by some method yet to be determined. Components of the Final Project ------------------------------------- #. Intro: choose a problem; say why it's interesting a. Submit your own intro (26-Jan) b. Review teammates' intros (2-Feb) #. Background: review three papers that studied your problem a. Submit your own background section (9-Feb) b. Review teammates' background sections (16-Feb) #. Propose an algorithm that does something relevant for your problem, describe the algorithm clearly, and describe why the algorithm might work a. Submit your own algorithm section (2-Mar) b. Review your teammates' algorithm sections (9-Mar) #. Run an experiment. Describe experimental methods (dataset and performance metric) and results a. Submit your own experiment section (23-Mar) b. Review your teammates' experiment sections (30-Mar) #. Discuss the degree to which your experimental result is a success, a failure, or uninterpretable. In light of your experiment, and of the papers you reviewed, discuss possible next steps a. Submit your own discussion section (13-Apr) b. Review your teammates' discussion sections (20-Apr) #. Submit your final paper with revisions (27-Apr)