CS U610 Senior Honors Seminar Projects Spring 2004

· Students will form project groups of two or three.

· Each group will pick a project.

· Each group will

o do a literature search for articles related to the project.

o present an introductory talk on the project (background and plans)

o design, document, implement, and test a piece of software

discuss the progress of the project in class

o present the completed software (demo and discussion, ~30 minutes)

o Write a conference style paper (4 or 5 pages) on the project

ACM SIG Proceedings Templates

http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

· Each student will

o Give a half-hour talk on a topic related to their project or other speech-processing topic.

Class Date	Prepare in Advance	In Class
February 12	Form groups	Fourier Transforms (Fell) Simple Synthesis (Fell) Discuss project plans and expected topics
February 19	Pick a Topic and do a literature search. Prepare to tell us about your topic.	Introductory talks (students) Speech Landmarks (Fell)
February 26	Write a Functional Specification, i.e., what is your software going to do? Prepare to tell us about your planned software.	Software Plans presented (students)
March 4	SPRING BREAK
March 11	Have a kernel version of your software coded. Testing plan due	Student demos with discussion of future developments and testing plans
March 18	Half hour student presentations on topics related to their projects, or other topics.
March 25
April 1
April 8	Final Project Demos Papers due	Students present projects.
April 15	(Finals Week – We should be done.)