CSI4900 Honours Project - Fall 2024

Prerequisites:

• For CSI students: 18 credits of CSI or SEG courses at the 3000 or 4000 level.
• If you do not have the prerequisites, you are not allowed to take this course.

News

• Note that the project presentations for the Fall term will be held on December 4,5,6 , you can find the scheduke on Brightspace. Remember that every student is required to attend at least 1/2 of the presentations, and are encouraged to attend more.
• The Cognos Prize will be awarded to one team in the Fall 2024 term and one in the Winter 2025 term, to recognize the top fourth year honours projects in Computer Science. Information will be available here (English, français).

A. Choosing Your Project

1. The projects page is there to help you to select a project. Professors continue to update their project pages, so keep checking for updates. You can also propose your own project, but you must find a professor to supervise your work.
2. Contact the professor and if you and the professor agree to work together, proceed to the next step else go back to 1.
3. Then you must register your project. Project registration will be available on Brightspace soon.

Projects must be done in teams of 1-3 people. When you register a project, you are committed to complete that project. If there are any problems please contact me by email. Once you choose a project, mention your project title in any correspondence regarding CSI4900.

B. Project Reports

• You are required to write a project report. The material that you will be required to include in your report is project dependent and should be discussed in detail with your project supervisor (professor).
• The project report will be marked by your project supervisor.
• The due date is Friday, December 20 at 16:00
• Your report must be submitted electronically using your Brightspace account.
• The due dates are firm. No exceptions allowed. Not even your supervisor is allowed to give you an extension. It is advisable to start working on your project as soon as you choose it.

C. Presentations

• One project presentation is required for each project team (not one per student).
• Each presentation will last 15 minutes (including setup time and end-of-talk questions).
• Each presentation can be done either in French or English.
• An assigned professor will evaluate your project presentation (see marking scheme below).
• The Fall 2024 presentation will all be online (via Zoom).
• The time slot for each presentation will be assigned by me at random (each project team will have equal probability of being assigned to the latest time slot).
• All project presentations will take place during the last two or three weeks of the term. The complete timetable for project presentations will be posted on the CSI4900 Homepage.
• Please read this important information on how to prepare your presentation.
• Each student must attend to at least 1/2 of all the project presentations (including his/her own presentation). Any student who cannot attend to this amount of presentations because of time table conflicts with other U of O courses must contact me and indicate to me the list of courses in conflict (so I can verify this fact with the registration office). Hence, any other reasons like conflicts with your employer (e.g.: in the case of part-time students) are not considered as valid reasons for not attending to at least 1/2 of all the project presentations. Attendance at each presentation will be recorded.

D. Marking scheme

• Remains the same if your talk is satisfactory.
• Increases by 1 point (ex: from B to B+) if your talk is superior.
• Decreases by 1 point (ex: from B to C+) if your talk is not satisfactory.

A talk is said to be satisfactory if:

• it makes effective use of audiovisual aids.
• the topic is introduced and explained clearly.
• the presentation is well organized with a proper balance of time allocated to the introduction, methodology, solutions, results and conclusion.
• it shows good technical content (ingenuity of the approach, technical competence of the project group, usefulness of the results,...).

An assigned CSI professor will be the one who will classify your talk. From previous year results, it is expected that about 20% of the presentations will be judged superior and about 20% of the presentations will be judged not satisfactory but this, of course, can change...

e-mail: paola.flocchini@uottawa.ca