CS4960, Fall 2020

Class Schedule, Notes

Note: Schedule is subject to change, please check regularly.

WK Class/Date Topic Events
1 Thur 8/27 Introduction
2 Thur 9/3 Finding Topics, public speaking advice Preliminary topic due (Zoom, Skype or telephone discussion, by 5pm Wed 9/16)
3 Thur 9/10 Topic proposal due (email, by midnight Wed 9/23)
4 Thur 9/17 Final topic approval via email
5 Thur 9/24
6 Thur 10/1 Topic presentation video-taping and paper draft feedback Presentation video and feedback due (Wed 10/7, 5 pm, CS Homework )
Emailing a link to video to professor is ok
7 Thur 10/8
8 Thur 10/15
9 Thur 10/22
10 Thur 10/29 Van Hoogmoed and Hunt meet with Thomas
11 Thur 11/5 Van Hoogmoed's and Hunt's papers due
Gould and Brown meet with Thomas
12 Thur 11/12 Van Hoogmoed speaks ("Spoofing Attacks on Bluetooth Compatible Cellular Devices: A look into BLESA attacks utilizing Oura Rings")
Hunt speaks ("Halide as a Solution to Efficient Image Processing")
Gould's and Brown's papers due
Castillo and Humphrey meet with Thomas
13 Thur 11/19 Gould speaks ("Direct Perception: A Computer Visual Approach")
Brown speaks (Brown's paper)
Castillo's and Humphreys's papers due
Hurtt and Saephan meet with Thomas
14 Thur 11/26 School Holiday: Thanksgiving Day
15 Thur 12/3 Castillo speaks ("Contextual Speech Recognition in Voice Assistants")
Humphreys speaks ("Insecurity of Secondary Authentication")
Brown speaks ("Using Key Installation Attacks on the WPA2 Security Protocol")
Feedback on Gould's paper due by today, too.
Hurtt's and Saephan's papers due
16 Thur 12/10 Hurtt speaks ("Understanding RISC-V Architecture")
Saephan speaks ("Dark Silicon: Taking Advantage of the Dark Silicon Era")
Course Wrap-up
FINAL EXAM : None