Assignments are due by the start of class.
| CLASS | TOPICS | ASSIGNMENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Research | |
| 2 | Ethics |
Find a popular-press article or blog discussion of some science or engineering result or design achievement, and also find the researchers’/designers’ own write-up of the results. Did the press understand and correctly report the most significant aspects of the work? Write one page explaining your thoughts. |
| 3 | Intellectual Property (IP) |
A brief summary of who all the participants are in the project on which you are working and their roles: other UROPers, grad students, faculty and research staff, collaborators outside the Media Lab; also where the research funding comes from. |
| 4 | Resources |
Patent search — find a patent that is relevant to your research and write a brief summary of it. For extra fun, find a seemingly silly, useless, or inexplicable patent and share it with class next class. |
| 5 | What’s “peer review” anyway? |
Literature search — find a new paper/reference/informational resource (that you didn’t have already) related to your project and write a brief summary of it. Also say how you found it. |
| 6 | What the web means to all this |
Conference search — find out from your UROP supervisor or colleagues which conference or meeting is a typical place for research like that done by your group to be presented. Look up the conference on-line and write a brief summary of it. |
| 7 | How does this stuff get paid for? | Find and critique a research-results page. |
| 8 | Demoing and presenting | |
| 9-10 | Final presentation practice | Practice presentations and critiques. |
| 11-12 | Final presentations | Present your final project. |
