Course Information
Time & Place
Lecture:
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10:10-11:00am, Gates Hall 114
You are expected to attend all lectures.
Course Staff
Placeholder for staff
Prerequisites
Enrollment limited to: graduate students or permission of instructor.
Programming experience and mathematical maturity is required.
Texts
You are required to read the course notes posted on the web site. These will often contain more
detail than what was presented in lecture.
Ed
We will be using Ed as an online discussion forum. You are encouraged to post
any questions you might have about the course material. The course staff
monitor the forum fairly closely and you will usually get a quick response. If
you know the answer to a question, you are encouraged to post it, but please
avoid giving away any hints on the homework or posting any part of a
solution—this is considered a violation of academic integrity.
By default, your posts are visible to the course staff and other students, and
you should prefer this mode so that others can benefit from your question and
the answer. However, you can post privately so that only the course staff can
see your question, and you should do so if your post might reveal information
about a solution to a homework problem. If you post privately, we reserve the
right to make your post public if we think the class will benefit. You can also
post anonymously if you wish not to reveal your identity.
The discussion forum is the most effective way to communicate with the staff and is the preferred
mode of interaction. Please reserve email for urgent or confidential matters.
Free-ranging technical discussions are especially encouraged. Broadcast
messages from the course staff to students will be sent using Ed and all
course announcements will be posted there, so check in often.
CMSX
We will be using the course management system CMSX for managing assignments,
exams, and grades. Everyone who preregistered for the course should be entered,
but if you did not preregister, you are probably missing. Please login here and
check whether you exist. There will be a list of courses you are registered
for, and CS 6110 should be one of them. If not, please send your full name and
Cornell NetID to the course staff so you can be registered.
You can check your grades, submit homework, and request regrades in CMSX. Please
check your grades regularly to make sure we are recording things properly. The
system also provides some grading statistics. There is a help page with
instructions.
Please do not repost course materials released on CMS publicly. These materials are intellectual property and are meant for participants in the course. They are not free to the public.
Announcements and Handouts
Announcements will be posted to Ed. Homework and exam solutions will be
available in CMS. Check frequently for new postings.
Assignments & Exams
There will be 4 slip days for assignments this semester, with a 10% per day
penalty applied thereafter. Extensions may be granted in case of illness or
other acceptable excuse; please contact the course instructor as early as possible
if an extension will be needed.
There will be a 1½-hour evening prelim and a 2½-hour final exam. Please check the schedule page for times and locations.
Your final grade will be based on your assignment and exam scores according to the following weights:
| Participation | 3% |
| Assignments | 45% |
| | Assignment 1 | 8% |
| | Assignment 2 | 8% |
| | Assignment 3 | 9% |
| | Assignment 4 | 10% |
| | Assignment 5 | 10% |
| Prelim | 22% |
| Final | 30% |
Participation will be assessed based on attendance and participation in class,
participation in Ed discussions, filling out course evaluations,
and pop quizzes given in class (usually promptly at the start!)
Scores will be averaged by computing a weighted quadratic
mean, which means that unrepresentatively low scores (such as missing
assignments) will have less weight.
Regrades
Homework regrade requests can be submitted electronically in CMS. Exam regrades
should be handwritten and submitted to the course staff. Please include a
description of the grading error with your regrade request.
Academic Integrity
Each student in this course is expected to abide by the Cornell
University Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student
in this course for academic credit must be the student’s own work.
A high level of academic integrity is expected of all students. Under no
circumstances may you submit work done with or by someone else under your own
name or share detailed proofs or code with anyone else except your partner.
However, discussions about general techniques or the requirements of the
assignment are permissible.
You must cite all sources, including Internet sources. You must acknowledge
by name anyone whom you consulted (excluding course staff). You may not
give nor receive assistance from anyone else during an exam. You may not
post any material that might be part of a solution publicly on Ed. If your
question necessarily includes such material, post privately.
If you are unsure about what is permissible and what is not, please ask.
Academic Integrity Resources:
Special Needs
We will provide appropriate accommodation for students with special needs or disabilities. Requests for accommodation are to be made during the first three weeks of the semester and must be accompanied by official documentation. Please register with Student Disability Services in 110 Ho Plaza (Cornell Health Building), Level 5 to document your eligibility.
