CSE 40437/60437 | Class Profile

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Online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook), smartphones, and ubiquitous internet connectivity have greatly facilitated data sharing at scale, allowing for a firehose of human and sensor observations to pour in about the physical world in real-time. This opens up unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the field of social sensing and cyber-physical systems (CPS) where an important goal is to efficiently organize the real-time data feeds and accurately reconstruct the "states of the world", both physical and social. This course offers students the opportunity to learn the theoretical foundations, state-of-the-art techniques, and hands-on experience in this exciting area. The topic of this class is timely due to the increasing interest in online social networks, big data, and human-in-the-loop systems, as well as the proliferation of computing artifacts that interact with or monitor the physical world.

The class contains four main components: (i) the introduction to social sensing and cyber-physical systems; (ii) key technical challenges (e.g., big data analytics, system reliability, user mobility, energy, privacy, etc.); (iii) state-of-the-art techniques and systems (e.g., MapReduce/Hadoop, fact-finding, etc); (iv) emerging applications (smartphone-based crowdsensing, online social media sensing, participatory/opportunistic sensing, intelligent transportation, smart buildings, body area networks etc). The students will have the opportunities to work with real world social sensing and cyber-physical system problems.

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Class Website

http://www3.nd.edu/~dwang5/courses/spring15/

Announcements

Final project presentation grades are on Sakai

04/29/15 - 9:34 AM

Dear all,

Thanks a lot for the great presentations in our last class. I truly enjoyed them and felt very excited about interesting findings from our projects in social sensing.

The grades of the final presentation are available on Sakai now. I am looking forward to reading your final project paper next week.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Best

Prof. Wang

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Tomorrow's Final Project Presentation

04/27/15 - 11:40 AM

Dear all,

Thanks a lot for you sending me your slides drafts. You should have received the feedback/comments from me. Here are a few things to note for tomorrow's presentation:

1. Please send me your final version of slides by Noon tomorrow so I can upload them to the computer in the classroom.

2. Each group will have 7 min for presentation an 2 min for Q&A.

3. A few groups plan to do a short demo during their presentations. For those groups, please arrive a bit early tomorrow to test your demo on the classroom computer or your laptop (if you would like to use your own computer).

4. Since we have a relatively tight schedule, please attend the class on time.

If you have any question or need further assistance on your final presentation, please just let me know.

Best

Prof. Wang

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Presentation grades available on Sakai

04/23/15 - 4:02 PM

Dear all,

Thanks a lot for doing great presentations this week! I really enjoyed them :)

The grades of the paper presentation are available on Sakai now. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Please send me the draft slides of your final presentation by Noon tomorrow. I look forward to wonderful project presentations next Tuesday.

Best

Prof. Wang

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Updated final presentation schedule

04/21/15 - 4:42 PM

Dear all,

I have updated the final presentation schedule on the course website based on our voting result today. We will finish all presentations on next Tuesday (April 28). Each group will have a 9 min slot: 7 min for presentation and 2 min for Q&A. Please send me the draft of your slides by Noon this Friday.

http://www3.nd.edu/~dwang5/courses/spring15/presentation/presentations-final.html

Btw, the in-class paper presentation slides are on Piazza under resource tab.

If you have any questions, please just let me know.

Best

Prof. Wang

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About reading day conflict

04/19/15 - 10:09 PM

Dear all,

I just realized April 30th is the reading day so we will not have class on that day. So we need to adjust our final project presentation schedule. Here are two options:

1. Adjust the presentation and Q&A time of each group to 9 min (and the presentation will mainly focus on the progress made after mid-term), then we can finish all presentations on April 28th.

2. Find another 75-min slots that works for all and stay with the original schedule.

Let's vote in this Tuesday class and see which option people like better.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to you.

Prof. Wang

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Final Project Presentation Schedule

04/19/15 - 9:31 PM

Dear all,

The schedule of the final project presentation (in the week of April 27) is available on the course website:

http://www3.nd.edu/~dwang5/courses/spring15/presentation/presentations-final.html

Please send me your presentation slides by noon April 24 (Friday). For the final project meeting, please sign up your slots on doodle if you have not done it so far.

We will have in-class paper presentations this week, each group should have received my feedback about your slides. Please send me the final version of your slides before noon on the day of your presentation.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks

Prof. Wang

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Schedule of next few weeks

04/09/15 - 5:55 PM

Dear all,

As we discussed today in class, the schedule of class in next few weeks is as follows:

(1) Week of April 13: I will be traveling to the CPS Week conference: http://www.cpsweek.org/2015/

Tue (April 14): Guest lecture given by Prof. Tim Weninger

Thu (April 17): No class

I will work remotely with each group to help you prepare your paper presentation. If you need a skype discussion, we can arrange for it.

(2) Week of April 20: In class student presentations; Final project meeting (please sign up slots on doodle)

(3) Week of April 28: Final project presentations;

(4) Final project paper is due Noon May 4.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Best

Prof. Wang

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Final Project Meeting and Presentations

04/09/15 - 10:29 AM

Dear all,

The instructions for the final project presentation (in the week of April 28) are available on the course website:

http://www3.nd.edu/~dwang5/courses/spring15/presentation/presentations-final.html

In the week of April 21, I would like to meet each group individually to help you prepare the final presentation and report. The meeting place is in my office (214 B Cushing Hall). Please sign up a slot that works best for you on doodle:

http://doodle.com/e9ww43x9g4grdvfw#table

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Best

Prof. Wang

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