Re: Current grade book

By the way, in case you are wondering which row corresponds to your record, please note that the table is listed

in terms of posting ids. Each of you have a student id and a posting id. We are allowed to use only posting ids when 

we send grade lists by mail. 

Rao

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu> wrote:

Dear all:

 I am attaching the current grade book for the course. It contains your attendance over 8 classes (for which I took attendance sign-in), and also whether or not you submitted the assignments.

Please let me know if you see any discrepancies.

For the Gap analysis assignment, I have two sheets that were turned in without names. So if you think you turned in the gap analysis, you will have to come to my room and claim your sheet (so I can record it as done).

Rao

Current grade book

Dear all:

 I am attaching the current grade book for the course. It contains your attendance over 8 classes (for which I took attendance sign-in), and also whether or not you submitted the assignments.

Please let me know if you see any discrepancies.

For the Gap analysis assignment, I have two sheets that were turned in without names. So if you think you turned in the gap analysis, you will have to come to my room and claim your sheet (so I can record it as done).

Rao

Sorry for the disruption to the class today..

Dear all:

 I apologize for the disruption to the flow of the class that I may have caused when I had to ask a student to leave.

I get distracted by  inattentive students which adversely affects my ability to teach. Most of the time inattentiveness is not an issue in my

classes; but this particular class has been somewhat challenging. 

To the extent possible I try to  to balance my interest in reducing distraction and the importance of not causing disruption to the flow of the class--by taking it up with 

the student after the class. Today, this was not possible.

regards

Rao

A general interest lecture on AI

If you find the discussion on intelligent agent design interesting, at the risk of seeming presumptuous, I would draw your attention to 

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/last-lecture.html 

It is a general interest lecture on lessons from AI to life. 

cheers

Rao

One-on-one meetings before the end of the semester

Folks:

 As I mentioned in today's class, I would encourage each of you to meet with me one on one for brief (~15min) slots before the end of the semester (Dec 6th) to talk about

a. your academic plans

b. how you are finding the university life

c. your program of study for the next semester(s)

d. the area(s) you want to concentrate on

e. anything else you want to talk about and/or want advice on

I have regular office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2pm. If those don't work, you can talk to me

after the class on Fridays (note: there are only two classes left), or email me about your free times and I will find a 

slot we can meet on.

Even if you are planning on meeting during office hours, do let me know so I know who to expect (and also to make sure to let you know

if the office hours are moved for any reason)

Rao

Computation thinking blog assignment..

Here is a "guest lecture" for this course--titled "Computational Thinking". In this, Jeannette Wing, who was until recently the head

of National Science Foundation's  Computer and Information Science and Engineering, talks about how computational thinking--that Computer Scientists do for a living, 

is going to play a major part in everyone's  (not just CS students') life (just like philosophical thinking is not just for philosophy students).  

I would like you to either read either the article, or  the slides or hear the youtube lecture (they are not exactly identical but

close enough). Once you do, I would like you to comment on any points that caught your attention. 

You will have to do this by 11/18 (before the class). You don't necessarily have to agree with everything she says; you are welcome to be critical. 

Article:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf 

Slides (in pdf): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/Computational_Thinking.pdf

Video (on youtube; 65min):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Pq4N-iE4I

cheers

Rao

Reminder: Proficiency profile exam in class tomorrow

Folks

 

 This is just to remind you that  there will be a proficiency profile exam tomorrow in class. See the original mail below

for details. Note that if you miss the exam  you will likely be required to make it up by going to the test center somewhere. 

You are thus better off taking care of this during class time tomorrow.

regards

Rao

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:10 PM
Subject: The class of 10/14 will be a proficiency profile exam in class
To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>

Folks:

 During the whole period of the class of Oct 14th, you will have a proficiency profile examination 

(the details are in the blurb below). Please note that if  you miss the exam, they will require you to take it 

during some make-up session (which may not be a feasible option since they apparently have to complete

all exams by Oct 15th).

 (Note that while your participation is required, your performance on this exam *will not* affect your grade. as the

blurb below says, you will get the results for your own consumption, and they will also give you 10 sun dollars). 

Rao

==========

ETS Proficiency Profile

As part of ASU's efforts to understand our contributions to student learning, this class

was selected to participate in the ETS Proficiency Profile this fall. This is a 40-minute

test that measures your proficiency in critical thinking, reading, writing and mathematics.

You will take this exam as a part of this course on Oct 14th. On the day of the exam,

you will bring your ASU Sun Card and a No.2 pencil. I, along with test proctors,

will administer the exam as part of our class period. It is expected that all students

complete the exam as part of this course on the identified date. If for any reason you

do not take the exam on the identified date, you will participate in a make-up session.

However, make-up sessions are very limited and students are expected to complete the

exam during our course's scheduled time.

There are several benefits to taking this exam for you and for our college. First, you will

receive a score report with feedback on your performance in these important skill areas.

Second, you will receive a $10 incentive loaded onto your Sun Card in October/early

November. You will represent our college and help us understand our impact on your

learning. You will take this exam two more times during your undergraduate experience

at ASU-in the spring of your second year and the spring of your fourth year. You will be

able to see your growth during this time and will help ASU determine to what extent we

have taught students the skills they need to be successful after graduation.

We appreciate your participation and your efforts to represent our college in this

important initiative.

*Mandatory* Blog questions on Complexity and Search Engines [Due by 10/21]

Folks:

 Here are a few questions on complexity and search engines--mostly to check what got through. You are required to

enter your answers to the questions as a comment on the blog:

1. My friend was asked by his boss to come up with an efficient algorithm for a time-tabling problem for the company.

My friend was unable to come up with anything that runs in less than exponential time. He wanted to convince his boss that

no one else could have done any better. He went and told the boss this: "Look, this time-tabling problem can be easily (i.e., in polynomial time)

converted into a boolean satisfiability problem. Now, it is well known that boolean satisfiability is an NP-Complete problem (i.e., it is one of 'em

monster problems in class NP). So it is no bloody surprise that I am unable to come up with anything other than an exponential algorithm".

What do you think of my friends' reasoning?

2. Explain why the arguments based on reductions to/from NP-complete problems is needed? Can't we just prove that a problem can't have anything

other than exponential (or polynomial) solution? Do you know of any famous problems that were thought to be exponential for a long time until someone found a polynomial algorithm?

3. One of the CSE faculty members used to have a bunch of magnetic words stuck to his (then metallic) doors. All the students passing by will try to arrange the magnetic words to make interesting english messages. If we assume that each student was making it a point to use *all* the words in his/her message, then what would the bag-of-words similarity measures say about the pair-wise difference among those messages? Considering that I told you that search engines use these as the default similarity metrics, what does it make you think about the intelligence of search engines?

4. Suppose I have a document D1: "Rao is a happy chap"   I make another document D2 by copying all the text from D1 and pasting it 2 times into D2 (so D2 is

"Rao is a happy chap Rao is a happy chap"). What will the bag similarity metric say about the similarity between D1 and D2? What will the cosine-theta (or vector) similarity metric

say about the similarity between D1 and D2? Which do you think is better for this case?

Re: The class of 10/14 will be a proficiency profile exam in class

You can ignore it.  The whole class will do it on 14th.

Rao

On Thursday, October 6, 2011, Michael Gutierrez <Michael.W.Gutierrez@asu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got the following email today.
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> You were scheduled to participate in the administration of the Proficiency Profile as part of your ASU  101-CSE on 9/30/2011. Our records show that you did not complete the test on the test date.
>
>  
>
> I am contacting you to schedule a make-up session on one of the four campuses. These are our final make-up sessions, so please reply by 1:
>
> 00 pm for today's session or 4:00 PM for tomorrow's session to ensure time to get you on our schedule.
>
>  
>
> As the exam is a requirement of your course, and assists the institution with making valuable decisions that will impact your course curriculum over the next few years, it is important that you attend this make-up exam. In addition, for your time and contributions you will be rewarded $10 on your ASU Sun Card.
>
>  
>
> Please review the dates, times and locations below and respond to this email with the date and time that works best for you. Space is limited to 25 students a session, so it is important that you contact us at your earliest convenience.
>
>  
>
> Campus                                Time                      Date
>
>  
>
> Tempe                  3:00 PM                                Thur, 10/6
>
> Tempe                  9:00 AM                               Fri, 10/7
>
>  
>
> If you have any questions, please consult your instructor or respond to ProficiencyProfile@asu.edu.
>
>  
>
> Sincerely,
>
> University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness
>
>  
>
> I am confused about this because I was under the impression that our test date was 10/14 and also I was at class last Friday which is the day they are telling me I missed the test.   So, I am wondering what steps I should take to resolve this?  Thank you.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> From: Michael Gutierrez
>
> Information Technology Specialist:
>
> ASU Graduate College
>
> 480-965-2662
>
> mwgutier@asu.edu
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> From: SUBBARAO.KAMBHAMPATI@asu.edu [mailto:SUBBARAO.KAMBHAMPATI@asu.edu] On Behalf Of Subbarao Kambhampati
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 5:10 PM
> To: Rao Kambhampati
> Subject: The class of 10/14 will be a proficiency profile exam in class
>
>  
>
> Folks:
>
>  
>
>  During the whole period of the class of Oct 14th, you will have a proficiency profile examination 
>
> (the details are in the blurb below). Please note that if  you miss the exam, they will require you to take it 
>
> during some make-up session (which may not be a feasible option since they apparently have to complete
>
> all exams by Oct 15th).
>
>  
>
>  (Note that while your participation is required, your performance on this exam *will not* affect your grade. as the
>
> blurb below says, you will get the results for your own consumption, and they will also give you 10 sun dollars). 
>
>  
>
> Rao
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> ==========
>
>  
>
> ETS Proficiency Profile
>
>  
>
> As part of ASU's efforts to understand our contributions to student learning, this class
>
> was selected to participate in the ETS Proficiency Profile this fall. This is a 40-minute
>
> test that measures your proficiency in critical thinking, reading, writing and mathematics.
>
>  
>
> You will take this exam as a part of this course on Oct 14th. On the day of the exam,
>
> you will bring your ASU Sun Card and a No.2 pencil. I, along with test proctors,
>
> will administer the exam as part of our class period. It is expected that all students
>
> complete the exam as part of this course on the identified date. If for any reason you
>
> do not take the exam on the identified date, you will participate in a make-up session.
>
> However, make-up sessions are very limited and students are expected to complete the
>
> exam during our course's scheduled time.
>
>  
>
> There are several benefits to taking this exam for you and for our college. First, you will
>
> receive a score report with feedback on your performance in these important skill areas.
>
> Second, you will receive a $10 incentive loaded onto your Sun Card in October/early
>
> November. You will represent our college and help us understand our impact on your
>
> learning. You will take this exam two more times during your undergraduate experience
>
> at ASU-in the spring of your second year and the spring of your fourth year. You will be
>
> able to see your growth during this time and will help ASU determine to what extent we
>
> have taught students the skills they need to be successful after graduation.
>
>  
>
> We appreciate your participation and your efforts to represent our college in this
>
> important initiative.

The class of 10/14 will be a proficiency profile exam in class

Folks:

 During the whole period of the class of Oct 14th, you will have a proficiency profile examination 

(the details are in the blurb below). Please note that if  you miss the exam, they will require you to take it 

during some make-up session (which may not be a feasible option since they apparently have to complete

all exams by Oct 15th).

 (Note that while your participation is required, your performance on this exam *will not* affect your grade. as the

blurb below says, you will get the results for your own consumption, and they will also give you 10 sun dollars). 

Rao

==========

ETS Proficiency Profile

As part of ASU's efforts to understand our contributions to student learning, this class

was selected to participate in the ETS Proficiency Profile this fall. This is a 40-minute

test that measures your proficiency in critical thinking, reading, writing and mathematics.

You will take this exam as a part of this course on Oct 14th. On the day of the exam,

you will bring your ASU Sun Card and a No.2 pencil. I, along with test proctors,

will administer the exam as part of our class period. It is expected that all students

complete the exam as part of this course on the identified date. If for any reason you

do not take the exam on the identified date, you will participate in a make-up session.

However, make-up sessions are very limited and students are expected to complete the

exam during our course's scheduled time.

There are several benefits to taking this exam for you and for our college. First, you will

receive a score report with feedback on your performance in these important skill areas.

Second, you will receive a $10 incentive loaded onto your Sun Card in October/early

November. You will represent our college and help us understand our impact on your

learning. You will take this exam two more times during your undergraduate experience

at ASU-in the spring of your second year and the spring of your fourth year. You will be

able to see your growth during this time and will help ASU determine to what extent we

have taught students the skills they need to be successful after graduation.

We appreciate your participation and your efforts to represent our college in this

important initiative.

Reminder: Time management lecture link...(and blog assignment)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Subject: Time management lecture link...
To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>


Here is the link to the Randy Pausch time-management talk:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0

Please watch it, and write a short summary/response on the blog as a comment to this post (deadline is 9/30). 

Rao

FYI: Announcement for ASU 101 Students: Company Tour at Integrated Device Technology (IDT)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cher Stevens <Cher.Stevens@asu.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:08 PM
Subject: Announcement for ASU 101 Students: Company Tour at Integrated Device Technology (IDT)
To: Cher Stevens <Cher.Stevens@asu.edu>

Dear ASU 101 Instructors:

 

We are planning company tours as a means of experiential education programming to engage our undergraduates and educate them about real-world experiences as it relates to their classroom learning.  Here are details for a company tour this Wednesday.  Feel free to share this with your students.  Thanks!

 

 

Integrated Device Technology in Tempe is opening their doors to us with live demonstrations in design, product test, and applications engineering.  This is your chance to meet talented engineers, learn more about current technology, and ask lots of questions. 

When: Wednesday, September 28th from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Depart ASU from east side of BYAC at 1:30 p.m.  http://www.asu.edu/map/interactive/

 

Space is limited-Register Now!:     http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IDTCompanyTour

 

Company Info:  Integrated Device Technology, Inc., founded in 1980, delivers system-level innovations that optimize customers' applications and enrich the end-user experience. The IDT 30+ year heritage and leadership in digital technologies, coupled with its in-house analog talents and capabilities, make IDT the premier analog and digital company. IDT builds upon its leadership positions in timing, serial switching and memory interfaces to expand its mixed-signal content in Communications, Computing and Consumer applications. By adding analog and system expertise to its traditional digital competencies, IDT is providing its customers with complete application-optimized mixed-signal solutions. Headquartered in San Jose, California, IDT has design, manufacturing and sales facilities throughout the world.  http://www.idt.com/

 

Questions:  Please include IDT Company Tour in subject line to: engineering.careers@asu.edu or call the Engineering Career Center 480.965.2966

 

 

Cher Stevens (Pappagallo)

 

 

Office of Academic and Student Affairs

Career Center

Brickyard  308, P.O. Box 877406

Tempe, AZ 85287-7406

P: 480-965-2276 / F: 480-965-2910

cher.stevens@asu.edu

http://engineering.asu.edu/career

 

 

Connect with me on :

http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherstevens

 

 

 

 

Reminder--this is due by 9/30: Time management lecture link... and blog response requirement

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <subbarao2z2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Time management lecture link...
To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>

Here is the link to the Randy Pausch time-management talk:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0

Please watch it, and write a short summary/response on the blog as a comment to this post (deadline is 9/30). 

Rao

Reminder: This is due tomorrow in class in hard-copy: Gap analysis homework

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Gap analysis homework
To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>


Here is the attachment in pdf in case you have trouble opening word

rao

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu> wrote:

Attached please find the gap analysis assignment as we discussed in today's class. This needs to be turned in hardcopy at the

beginning of next class.

thanks

Rao

Time management lecture link...

Here is the link to the Randy Pausch time-management talk:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0

Please watch it, and write a short summary/response on the blog as a comment to this post (deadline is 9/30). 

Rao

Gap analysis homework

Attached please find the gap analysis assignment as we discussed in today's class. This needs to be turned in hardcopy at the

beginning of next class.

thanks

Rao

test

test post

Fwd: Reminder: freshmen career exploration event

Enjoy this evenung.  Remember there is no class tomorrow

Rao

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Claveau
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011
Subject: Reminder: freshmen career exploration event
To: "Violet R. Syrotiuk" <syrotiuk@asu.edu>, Subbarao Kambhampati <SUBBARAO.KAMBHAMPATI@asu.edu>, Kurt VanLehn <Kurt.Vanlehn@asu.edu>, Gerald Farin <Gerald.Farin@asu.edu>, Andrea Richa <Andrea.Richa@asu.edu>, Hessam Sarjoughian <Hessam.Sarjoughian@asu.edu>, Hari Sundaram <Hari.Sundaram@asu.edu>, Rida Bazzi <bazzi@asu.edu>
Cc: Yann-Hang Lee <yhlee@asu.edu>


 

 

________________________________

From: James Collofello
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:44 AM
To: G Gibson; Kyle Squires; Marco Santello; Ronald Askin; Stephen Phillips; Avi Wiezel; Esma Gel; James Adams; Kevin Bennett; Lenore Dai; Michael Mamlouk; Ravi Gorur; Samuel Ariaratnam; Valana Wells; Yann-Hang Lee
Cc: Paul Johnson; Robin Hammond
Subject: freshmen career exploration event

Just a reminder about the freshmen career exploration event this evening.

 

http://new.engineering.asu.edu/asu101/?page_id=24

 

Tonight's Engineering Career Exploration is nearly 200 industry representatives strong!  Robin and her team with help from many program chairs and faculty have done a great job planning and making this one of our signature freshmen events.   The list of participants, agenda, and instructional material  are listed on the web site.

 

Please stop by, greet our industry guests, have some refreshments, and meet our new freshman class!  We welcome your feedback for next year as well.

 

jim

 

James S. Collofello

Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

School of Computing Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Arizona State University

 

Career night on Thursday evening at memorial union 5:30--8pm

Folks

 This is a reminder that all ASU101 students will have a career night on next Thursday (Sep 8th) at the memorial union from 5:30 to 8pm. Your attendance is required and will be taken.

There will be no regular ASU101 meeting on Sept 9th.

I will pass on any additional information I get. 

regards

Rao

Times article comment

It surprised me to see that the Harvard study said that those students that got involved with an activity outside of their regular studies/classes were happiest. And among those students that worked outside of class, the students that did the best academically were the ones that volunteered as apposed to receiving wages. It makes me wonder what kind of people are the ones that volunteer. Are they harder working or do they come from a more privileged background or what?

Taking a mix or courses sounds good but does ASU offer such a thing as this. My courses are already laid out for me in a preplanned list of courses according to my major. A mix of courses might work for someone not certain of what they want to major in.

I think that some time before the end of the first semester of the freshman year there should be training on time management. I have not been in school for too many years to know if this is a stupid suggestion or not.

[Important] Blog assignment for this week: How to be happy at a university...[Blog Response Required]

[This was sent on Friday; apparently the mail only got posted to the mail archive, but wasn't sent to the student

email addresses or posted on blog. Thus this re-send..]

Folks:

 Among the many advice articles on college life, here is one that I have found to be interesting (probably because its number one advice 

is something about us faculty folks ;-).

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/harvard.html

Your assignment for this week is to read this article, originally from New York Times (it is just 1500 words), and post a comment on the blog 

(as a comment to this post).  Your comment should be at least 150words--but can be longer if you want. You can focus on which of the suggestions

the article provide were most surprising/helpful etc for you. You can also add other suggestions. 

We might discuss your comments bit in the beginning of next class. 

thanks

Rao

talk on Jeopardy winning watson...

http://intheloop.engineering.asu.edu/2011/08/24/have-you-met-watson/

They may do a bit of IBM propaganda on the side--but you might enjoy the interactive session with Watson.

rao

Resending:Attendance

[This was sent on Friday; apparently the mail only got posted to the mail archive, but wasn't sent to the student

email addresses or posted on blog. Thus this re-send..]

To those who missed today's class (or those who are planning to in future ;-)

Folks

 As I said in the first class, it is hard to get a bad grade in ASU101, and that one way you can manage is to 

skip classes. In other words, attendance is one of the few things that is *required* in this class. 

 Please do keep this in mind.

regards

Rao

[ASU101] Blog Introductions (Response on blog required)

Folks:   

 The class blog is open and you should have received invitations to join ASU101 blog. 

The URL of the blog is 

http://asu101-f11.blogspot.com/

Before next Friday's meeting, you should sign on to the blog and post a  "comment" on the following first blog message and write your introductions 

1. Your name

2. Why you chose CS or Computer Systems major

3. What ares of CS/Computer systems seem to be of particular interest to you right now

4. Something interesting about yourself

regards

Rao

------------

Subbarao Kambhampati

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/asu101

ps: This message is going both as an email to you and will also be archived on the blog. Your responses have to be entered on the blog.