Meeting Time and Location:
Innovation Hall 134, Tuesday, 7:20 - 10:00 pm
Instructor: Prof. Yutao Zhong.
Email: yzhong (at) cs (dot) gmu (dot) edu
Office: STII 419
Office hour: TBA
Course Home Page
We will use WebCT (GMU WebCT Home) for this
course.
Course Resources
Grading Policies
There will be written assignments, midterm and final exams, and one course
project. Missed exams must be arranged with
the instructor BEFORE the exam. Documentation of the illness (doctor's
note) is required for the absence of an exam. No early exams will be given
and make-up exams are strongly discouraged. Course project includes a
one-page proposal, an in-class presentation and a final report. You will
select your own project topic with the help from the instructor. A list of
suggested topics will be given. The project can be either a literature
survey, a recreation of research experiments, or a detailed review of a
particular architecture, etc. Tentative
distribution is: written assignments: 25%, midterm: 20%, final exam: 25%, project: 30%.
Letter grades will be assigned by subjectively identifying brackets in the
numeric scores. A total score of 49 or less will result in F.
Late Policy
NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS ACCEPTED WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION FOR ILLNESS, with the following exception:
every student of the course is allowed to have a total of 3 FREE LATE DAYS. Consider them as non-transferable, non-replaceable credits and use them wisely. If you wish to use one or more of these, indicate it clearly in your submission.
Late days CANNOT be applied on project proposal or presentation. No partial late day is in effect. You need one whole late day to cover a one-hour
late submission. Late submissions will not be graded if you have used all three
late days. Partial credits are available for in-time submissions.
Honor Code
You are expected to abide by the honor code. Please refer to
GMU
Academic Policies and
Computer
Science Department Honor Code. Any violation of the honor code will result in a zero of the
assignment/exam, and may result in an F for the class.