CM50175 - Research Project Preparation

Academic year 2007/2008 (i.e., most of the material on this page is now outdated!)

University of Bath, Department of Computer Science, Semester 2

Unit Lecturer: Dr Matthias Nickles

Course objectives:

  1. To teach you about both doing and writing up a major project in Computer Science
  2. To give you a head start on your MSc dissertation, including helping you find a supervisor and a topic

Important documents

Coursework specification

Assessment form 1 (for project supervisors) Assessment form 2 (for the unit lecturer)

Project Preference Form (due on Monday 3/3/2008 noon).

A University of Bath webpage about avoiding plagiarism.

Moodle course page (for discussions and announcements)

Lecture slides

Lecture 1 (introduction, tentative schedule, coursework, structure of project proposals and MSc dissertations)

Lecture 2 (literature research, bibliography & citing, about plagiarism)

Lecture 3 (LaTeX. Slides by Dr Marina De Vos)

Lecture 4 (LaTeX resources, BibTeX, coursework assessment)

Lecture 5 (Philosophy of Science)

Lecture 6 (the Scientific Method)

Lecture 7 (dissertation assessment. We look at a few dissertations)

Subversion / TortoiseSVN slides (by Subtrain. External link)

Useful links for Subversion, including tutorials, software and free online books

Seminar schedule

During week 1-4, the seminar consists of staff presentations.

Staff talk schedule - continually updated!

Tuesday,  6E 2.1
 Thursday,  8W 2.30
  15:15
 15:40
 9:15am
 9:40am
  29/1/08


  31/1/08
Dr John Power
  5/2/08
 Dr Peter Hall

  7/2/08


 12/2/08
 Dr John Collomosse (slides) Dr Matthias Nickles
 14/2/08
Prof James Davenport Dr Julian Padget
 19/2/08
 Dr Marina De Vos (slides) Prof Guy McCusker
 21/2/08