The first lecture is Friday 8:15-11:45, subsequent lectures are Friday 8:45-11:45, with exceptions (see below). Unless otherwise noted, lectures are in D1 (not D4 as initially posted on the schedule).
| Day | Activities | Reading / projects due |
| Sep 3rd 8:15 |
Course motivation Techniques for searching scientific literature (guest lecturer: Anita Thiesen) |
(none) |
| Sep 10th 8:45 |
Course introduction Start of Mini Project I: Literature Search Reading papers |
Dawson: Chapters 1 and 2 |
| Sep 17th 10:00 in A214 (project workshop 8:45 in D1) |
Technical talk by Mads Ager from Google: The V8 JavaScript Engine: Design, Implementation, Testing and Benchmarking Ulrik as available in D1 8:45-9:30 and will talk about the mini project |
Study material related to the talk, prepare questions (see Mini Project I) |
| Sep 24th 8:45 |
Empirical methods | Group report for Mini Project I (electronic, through Blackboard) |
| Oct 1st 8:45 |
Main project workshop | |
| Oct 8th 8:45 |
Scientific methods for software engineering | Email project description Dawson: Chapter 6 (cursory reading) Background reading: SCM-2 SCM-3 SCM-4 and AspectJ |
| Oct 15th 8:45 |
Scientific methods for AI (guest lecturer: Bridget Hallam | Email progress report SCM-01 (cursory reading) |
| Oct 29th 8:45 |
Empirical methods, empirical miniproject startup | Cohen: 1-3 |
| Nov 5th 8:45 |
Statistics I | Cohen: 4 (except 4.9) |
| Nov 12th 8:45 |
Statistics II | Cohen: 5.1, 5.2, cursory reading of the rest of chapter 5 |
| Nov 19th 8:45 |
LECTURE CANCELLED | |
| Nov 26th 8:45 |
Philosophy of science (guest lecturer: Jessica Carter) Statistics wrapup, survey project continuation A few good papers |
Empirical miniproject due |
| Dec 3rd 8:45 |
Empirical miniproject wrapup Presentation workshop |
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| Dec 10 | Lecture cancelled, work on your projects Note: send draft report to Ulrik for comments |
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| Jan 5 | Last chance to send draft report to Ulrik for comments | |
| Jan 10 | Survey main project due |