WORK SCHEDULE FOR CS 4960 -- Spring 2012

• CS 4960 meets in P-113 on Thursday, Jan 26.
  
  
• Overview of Course Documents and Organization

• Discussion of Topic Selection, Presentation Preparation, and Evaluation
  
  
• After Thursday, Feb 02: No adds will be allowed. Drops/withdrawals may be done on-line only.
  
  
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• Discussion of Topic Selection, Presentation Preparation, and Evaluation

• Deadline for all preliminary topic proposals: Thursday, Feb 16.
  
  Quoting from the Course Description:
  
  Propose the topic to the instructor (e-mail forms). The proposal must include:
  
  
  • an abstract of between 80 and 120 words, which describes the nature of the scholarly content that you will include in your presentation.
    
    
  • full citations, in proper form, of multiple reliable sources (at least two) from which you intend to draw.
    
    
  Consult the Course Description for the rest of the details. Penalty for noncompliance will be significant.
  
  
• Discussion of Topic Selection, Presentation Preparation, and Evaluation

• Discussion of Topic Selection, Presentation Preparation, and Evaluation
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 22 is Census Date:
  • Last Day to Request CR/NC Grading Option
  • Last Day to drop to part-time and qualify for a refund
  • $25 Late Payment on Any Unpaid Tuition Fees

• DEADLINE for all approval of all topic proposals: Thursday, Mar 01.
  You must meet this deadline to pass the course.
  
  
• Discussion of Topic Selection, Presentation Preparation, and Evaluation
  
  
• Friday, Mar 02: 2012-2013 Financial Aid Priority Filing Period Deadline

• Mar 08 distribution of copies of the first two two written reports:
  • Shawn Robbins
  • Andrew Silva
  
  

• Speaker #01, Mar 15: Shawn Robbins
• Topic: "Honeypots: Prevention, Detection, and Information Gathering"
  
  
• Speaker #02, Mar 15: Andrew Silva
• Topic: "Biometrics: A Password You Will Carry For Life"
  
  
• Mar 15 distribution of copies of the next two written reports:
  • Charles Bocage
  • Luis Cisneros
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• Speaker #03, Mar 22: Charles Bocage
• Topic: "Optimizing Compilers"
  
  
• Speaker #04, Mar 22: Luis Cisneros
• Topic: "Malware Detection"
  
  
• Mar 22 distribution of copies of the next two written reports:
  • Christian Smeltzer
  • Christopher Hill

• Speaker #05, Mar 29: Christian Smeltzer
• Topic: "The Evolving Internet, Need and Migration to IPv6"
  
  
• Speaker #06, Mar 29: Christopher Hill
• Topic: "Prolog: How Logic is Equivalent to Programming"
  
  
• Mar 29 distribution of copies of the next two written reports:
  • Jo Wang
  • Lon Porter

• Speaker #07, Apr 05: Jo Wang
• Topic: "Exploring XML encryption"
  
  
• Speaker #08, Apr 05: Lon Porter
• Topic: "Title of Talk Goes Here"
  
  
• Apr 05 distribution of copies of the next two written reports:
  • Aaron Reesh
  • Brandon Martella

• Speaker #09, Apr 19: Aaron Reesh
• Topic: "Intrusion Detection Algorithms"
  
  
• Speaker #10, Apr 19: Brandon Martella
• Topic: "DNSSEC: Domain Name System and Security Extension"
  
  
• Apr 19 distribution of copies of the next two written reports:
  • Maximo Andrade
  • Brook Benson

• Speaker #11, Apr 26: Maximo Andrade
• Topic: "Expert Systems, Data mining, and machine learning applied to IVF success prediction"
  
  
• Speaker #12, Apr 26: Brook Benson
• Topic: "Exploitable Code: What it is, what it does, what it means to the software developer, and how to avoid it"
  
  
• Apr 26 distribution of copies of the next two written reports:
  • Zach Donnell
  • Matthew Stephens

• Speaker #13, May 03: Zach Donnell
• Topic: "Arbitrary-Precision Arithmetic"
  
  
• Speaker #14, May 03: Matthew Stephens
• Topic: "Exception handling techniques in software verification"
  
  

• Friday is Warrior Day
  
  

• No class this week (Wednesday is the last day of 2011 Spring Semester Classes)