CS301               					 	SPR, 1980
Lenat & Feigenbaum						3 Units
Thu 2:45 - 5:45							380 W




	 SEMINAR ON THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN COMPUTER SCIENCE




This course is designed to ease the trauma of your delivery into the  real
world.  Upon graduation, you will be  treated as if you knew many  things.
Some of them were tested on the  comprehensive, or the qual, and you  WILL
know them.  But  many were  never covered in  any classroom,  and you  may
suffer for a long time before you induce them from experience. 

The course will cover many topics, in part suggested by student  interest.
A  partial  and  tentative  schedule  of  meetings  follows.   We  welcome
suggestions for its revision from the seminar participants.





April 3: Communication Skills 		(Lenat, Winograd, Brown)
Overview of CS301
General heuristics for effective communication
Specializations for written communication (briefly)
Preparing and delivering a good oral presentation
	Course lecture; Research talk; Job interview talk;
	Very short talks for site visits, colleagues, humanists, media
Assignment: prepare a 10 minute site visit talk on your research (for April 10)




April 10: Oral Communication Practicum	(Lenat, Feigenbaum, Brown, ...)
10-minute talks by each student, with 5 minutes of critique.
Assignment: Read and critique Feigenbaum's "The Art of Artificial
	Intelligence" and Floyd's Turing lecture.



April 17: Written Communication   (Lenat, Feigenbaum, Floyd, ...)
Discussion of Feigenbaum's and Floyd's papers.
Publishing: options and strategies.
Effective writing skills, and common bugs.
How to review proposals, journal articles, books
Assignment: Write (or submit) a brief article on one of these: (by April 21)
	The αβ search procedure; Bravo [maybe more: discuss dynamically]
	(pretend you had invented it, and were writing for a journal)



April 24:Written Communication Practicum	
Open discussion of (some) student submissions.



May 1: Graduate Studenthood			(Lenat, Feigenbaum, ...)
How to deal with the faculty and staff; how this department runs.
Your thesis: choosing a topic, doing the research, writing the tome, publicising it



May 8: Life in Academe (and research labs)	(Lenat, Feigenbaum)
Conducting Research: advice for doing good science
Funding opportunities -- and "costs" to the researcher
Grantsmanship (the acquiring of the aforementioned dollars)
Committees, Tenure, and Retirement
Teaching: lecturing; choosing courses; homework and exams; 
	utilizing teaching assistants and other aids; writing textbooks
Assignment: write a 15-page proposal to the agency of your choice (hand in May 15)



May 15: Designing and Building a Career		(Lenat, Feigenbaum, ...)
Options: academia, research labs, industry, government
	Including characterizations of specific institutions
Consulting opportunities and etiquette
Socialization skills (how to appear reasonable)
Relation between one's work and the rest of his life
Issues of responsibility to society



May 22: Proposal practicum
Discussion of students' proposals
	Critique of the scientific research programme being proposed
	Critique of the proposal document (re: its estimated effectiveness)



May 29: Panel discussion 		(open to all faculty members)
General discussion of any and all topics, with a panel of CSD faculty.
Suggestions for future CS301's.