Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 1709/03/08 cs6461 1IntroductionAdvanced Computer Networks(cs6461)Fall 2008Byung K. ChoiWed. Sept.03, 200809/03/08 cs6461 2Today’s Talk●Who am I?●Who’s Byung Choi?●What is research?●What is PhD/MS?●Typical format of a research paper●Outline of cs646109/03/08 cs6461 3Who am I?●Introduce yourself to the class–Name–Major or specialty–How long have been here–Future goals–Why I’m taking this course–My expectations09/03/08 cs6461 4Who’s Byung Choi?●Born in Korea●1985: BE in Electronic Eng. from Yonsei U.●1994: MS in Computer Science from Yonsei U.●2002: PhD in Computer Science from TAMU●Aug 2002 – Present: Assistant Prof. @MTU09/03/08 cs6461 5Who’s Byung Choi?●1985 – 1997: LG Information and Communications Lab., Korea–Call processing software –Switching system design●●Telecommunication vs. Computer Networks09/03/08 cs6461 6Who’s Byung Choi?●1985 – 1992: Conventional TDMA switching systems (central offices)●1992 – 1997: ATM switches, Video on Demand (VoD) Services, IPoA (IP over ATM)●●●Korean Accent: hopefully decode-able for most09/03/08 cs6461 7What is Research?●Try to give it an answer of your own!09/03/08 cs6461 8What is Research?●Something not studied by now●Contributing to the body of knowledge in a specific area or topic●Improving or enhancing existing methodologies●Verifiable by other researchers●Reproducible by other researchers●More fundamental the better●More influential the better09/03/08 cs6461 9Research in a nut shell●New ideas to a given research problem–Looks promising by systematic argument, mathematical analysis, simulation, and/or implementation●Research problem:–Fundamental vs. incremental●How do I know a (promising) research problem?–Smart people find one by themselves–See your adviser09/03/08 cs6461 10PhD, MS, and BS●What is the difference?09/03/08 cs6461 11Learning?●Undergraduates learn by repeating someone else’s wisdom●Graduates learn by creating and discovering knowledge●PhD vs. MS–PhD: Verified independent researcher to discover and create knowledge–MS: Tasted the way of doing research09/03/08 cs6461 12Typical Format of Research Work ●Introduction to a research problem●Related work●System model●Proposed idea/methodology●Evaluation●Conclusion●Acknowledgment●References09/03/08 cs6461 13In cs6461 we do ...●Formulate a research problem–Can be your own–Can be from your adviser–Can be from Byung Choi●A survey on the topic●Develop a system model for evaluation●Develop a new idea (or improvement)●Develop a plan of evaluation●Get “A”09/03/08 cs6461 14How to be a tenured student?●A tenured graduate student: Stays at school a lot more than necessary, say about 10 years!●Reasons:–Too ambitious–Not focused–Too lazy–No desire to graduate–Too bad adviser09/03/08 cs6461 15How to pick up a good adviser?●Academic marriage!●Divorce is bad like in human life●If you like one without any reason, just work with him/her●Other factors:–RA-ship–Same cultural background–Research area–Personality09/03/08 cs6461 16Who’s your adviser?●Average nobody in the world●Don’t know what to research for next decade●Spend 60 – 70% of work time for teaching●Just another nobody other than in his/her specialty●One of mom and dad people.....●The deal is: He/She knows how to do research!–You don’t, even though you would claim so:-)!09/03/08 cs6461 17Promises: CS6461 takers are likely●To succeed academically as they practice/taste research, the most important part of graduate level learning●To get “A”●To succeed in the rest of the academic training at MTU●To succeed in the rest of the
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