Start of classes on Thursday January 5, 2017.

All course related material, such as lecture notes, the list of topics and requirements for the Topic Study, and Project requirements, etc., will be posted in the EECS4352 course directory on red: /cs/course/4352.

Each group is required to have exactly 2 undergraduate students, or 1 graduate student, currently enrolled in the class. (Unfortunately, students who are on the waiting list cannot form a group with other students to reserve a topic.)

Topics are “First-Come-First-Served”. After organizing a group with the required number of students, each group may send by e-mail to the instructor the list of the student names in the group, and reserve one of the topics below. Please note that only a group of 2 undergraduate students or a group of 1 graduate student can reserve a topic.

Please also note that the deadline for forming a group of 2 undergraduate students and reserving a topic is Monday January 23, 2017, 23:59.

Topics are to be presented in the same order of the time of reservation of the topics. If a group is the first group to select and reserve a topic, then that group will be the first group to present their reserved topic.

For each presentation date, the topic title and the names of the students in the group will be listed.

For all students that have not joined a group and selected a topic by the deadline of Monday January 23, 2017, 23:59, such students will be randomly assigned to groups, and each of such groups will be randomly assigned to one of the available topics, and the topic presentation dates will also be randomly assigned.

Please note that the same groups for the Topic Study will also be used for completing other components of the 4352/5442 course work, including the labs, and project.

Note that graduate students must do the topic study, and project independently.

Please note that no lab will be held this week.

EECS 4352/5442 Test 1 will be held on Thursday February 16, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

EECS 4352/5442 Test 2 will be held on Tuesday April 4, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Test 1 will include: (a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Tuesday February 14, 2017; (b) Material in the files RT.1.pdf, RT.2.pdf, RT.3.pdf, and RT.4.pdf in the course directory /cs/course/4352.

It is possible that Test 1 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES, AND THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS. IF YOU HAD MISSED A LECTURE, MAKE SURE YOU OBTAIN A COPY OF THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS FROM A CLASSMATE, AS TEST 1 MAY INCLUDE QUESTIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

Also note that:

1. You are required to hand in both a hard copy and an electronic copy of all the EECS 4352 /5442 course work by Wednesday April 5, 2017, 23:59. (Note that this the last day to hand in term work for the Winter 2017 term)

2. You are required to use the utility “submit” to submit the electronic versions of all course work above to the directories in:

/cs/course/4352/submit

The electronic versions of the reports (topic study slides and report; and project report) should be in PDF format.

3. For the hard copies of all the EECS4352 / CSE5442 course work:

- either give it to the secretary in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Office to be put into my mailbox; or put it in the dropoff box for EECS4352 in Lassonde Building; or you may slip it under the door of my office Lassonde 3018 (in the latter case, you are responsible for making sure that the thickness of your hard copy allows it to be slipped under my office door).

The unofficial grades for EECS 4352 Winter 2017, when available, can be accessed by using your eecs account to login to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 4352 2016-17 W

Please note that EECS 4352 Lab sessions will take place on the following dates, in Lassonde 1004:

Lab 1 Friday Jan. 20th, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Lab 2 Friday Jan. 27th, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Lab 3 Friday Feb. 10th, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Lab 4 Friday Mar. 3rd, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Project Friday Mar. 24th, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

A company in Vancouver, QI-Leap Inc. is currently looking for a data scientist intern. For details, see /cs/course/4352/DSPostings.pdf

EECS 4352/5442 Test 1 will be held on Thursday February 16, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Test 1 will include: (a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Tuesday February 14, 2017; (b) Material in the files RT.1.pdf, RT.2.pdf, RT.3.pdf; and slides 1 - 18 of RT.4.pdf in the course directory /cs/course/4352.

It is possible that Test 1 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES, AND THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS. IF YOU HAD MISSED A LECTURE, MAKE SURE YOU OBTAIN A COPY OF THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS FROM A CLASSMATE, AS TEST 1 MAY INCLUDE QUESTIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

The 4352 Test 1 marks can be accessed by using your eecs account to login to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 4352 2016-17 W

DATA ANALYTICS & VISUALIZATION SUMMER SCHOOL

JULY 5-7, 2017 YORK UNIVERSITY

The all-expenses-paid undergraduate summer school program includes talks by CREATE DAV faculty and industry experts on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research topics on big data science, as well as York and OCAD U lab tours. The program is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in the big data science and visualization. Campus accomodations are provided and transportation costs are covered.

Application Deadline April 28, 2017

For more details, see /cs/course/4352/SummerSchool_Poster.pdf

Please note that because the Lab TA unfortunately is unable to come this Friday Mar 17th, the Lab has been rescheduled to be conducted on Friday Mar. 24th, 2017, 11:30-13:00.

Please note that for the EECS 4352 project, each group is required to give a demo of their project, including a 5 minute short presentation of their project, and 3 minutes to answer any questions that the Lab TA, Navid may ask.

The demos will take take place on Thursday April 6, 2017, between 11:00 and 13:00.

The order in which the demos will take place is as follows:

1. Thursday April 6, 11:00 am Group 1: Dinesh Kalia, Jeremi Boston

2. Thursday April 6, 11:10 am Group 2: Farzia D.Khan, Nikita Fodtchouk

3. Thursday April 6, 11:20 am Group 3: Bikram Jit Singh, Dharampreet Multani

4. Thursday April 6, 11:30 am Group 4: Li Guan, Yuqing Liu

5. Thursday April 6, 11:40 am Group 5: Bowen Xie, Meng Li

6. Thursday April 6, 11:50 am Group 6: Juyoung Kim, Randy Hickey

7. Thursday April 6, 12:00 pm Group 7: Randy Agyapong, Bilal Raza

8. Thursday April 6, 12:10 pm Group 8: Brandon Fung

9. Thursday April 6, 12:20 pm Group 9: Mohammed Zarifi, Benjamin Zaganjori

10. Thursday April 6, 12:30 pm Group 10: Scott Ferguson, Alexandru Dumbrava

11. Thursday April 6, 12:40 pm Group 11: Nazia Zafor, April Lico

12. Thursday April 6, 12:50 pm Group 12: Zhou Wu, Dusan Putnikovic

EECS4352/5442 Test 2 will be held:

Date: Tuesday April 4, 2017, 11:30-13:00

Location: BRG 313 (Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence, Room 313)

Test 2 will include: (a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Thursday March 30, 2017; (b) Material in the files RT.4.pdf, RTP.0.pdf, RTP.0.1.pdf and RTP.2.pdf in the course directory /cs/course/4352.

It is possible that Test 2 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES, AND THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS. IF YOU HAD MISSED A LECTURE, MAKE SURE YOU OBTAIN A COPY OF THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS FROM A CLASSMATE, AS TEST 2 MAY INCLUDE QUESTIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE MOST UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF THE LECTURE NOTES/SLIDES.

Please note that the LOCATION HAS CHANGED for EECS4352/5442 Test 2 for Tuesday April 4, 2017, 11:30-13:00

Location: BRG 313 (Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence, Room 313)

Please note that hard copies of the report and presentation slides, and project, in addition to the electronic versions, must also be submitted. Failure to submit a hard copy of an assignment will result in a 2 grade point deduction penalty for the assignment or project.

Please note that the unofficial course grades for EECS 4352 Winter 2017 can be accessed by login to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing in the following command:

courseInfo 4352 2016-17 W