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From: 00jdcrouch@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Peace Corp
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:28:20 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

I am graduating in May of this year and am considering the Peace Corp
as an alternitive to running out and starting the rest of my life.

Do any of you out there have any personal info or opinions about the Corp
and what it does.

Thanks ahead of time for replies,

Jeff
From: naraht@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Randolph J. Finder)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: grads and fraternities
Date: 11 Jan 93 03:53:40 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

I am interested in experiences of graduate students and fraternities(also
sororities in all cases)

If were in a fraternity as an undergraduate, how were you treated by
the chapter at the school you went to for grad studies? 
(either the same school or a different schools)

If you were not in a fraternity as an undergraduate, were you welcome
in any of them as a grad student.

Are there any honoraries either only for grad students or that allow
grad students to join?

My fraternity allows individual chapters to determine their policy toward
grad students and most allow full brotherhood for all grad students 
in the school.
-- 
(naraht@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu)	  | Leadership,Friendship, and Service
(vri_rjfin@dmis.ha.osd.mil)	  |          Alpha Phi Omega
"The service we render to others  | National (Co-ed) Service Fraternity
 is the rent we pay for our room on earth" - Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: Ethical question about reviewing papers for a conference
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:13:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.213858.5540@fuug.fi>, an3329@anon.penet.fi writes:
|> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <1993Jan9.113916.27542@fuug.fi>, an3329@anon.penet.fi writes:
|> >|> I'm a graduate student and I have a bit of a problem
|> >|> with my advisor.  He gave me some papers to referee,
|> >|> and these papers were submitted to a conference to
|> >|> which I have also submitted a paper. The problem is
|> >|> that these papers are very similar to the paper which
|> >|> I submitted, and so they will be competing directly 
|> >|> against my paper. I told him that I could not act as 
|> >|> an impartial reviewer, and I asked to have someone else
|> >|> review the papers, but he refused.  (He is also the
|> >|> conference co-chairman).  
|> >
|> >The proper thing to do is ask the conference chairman. If he says it is OK
|> >then it is OK. The responsibility for guaranteeing an impartial reviewing
|> >system rests with the conference chairmen. It is their responsibility to
|> >consider your bias (after you bring it to their attention.). If you made
|> >your advisor aware of the conflict of interest and he said that you should
|> >still review the papers, do so. It is likely that were your review out of
|> >line with those of the other referees, your bias would be taken into account.
|> 
|> That seems like reasonable advice, but I've received conflicting 
|> advice over in soc.college.grad to refuse to review the papers.
|> Could you perhaps come over there and offer your opinion 
|> on their advice? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. 

OK

Jason W. Solinsky
From: prasad@cis.ksu.edu (Baba C Prasad)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: Ph.D in Industrial Engineering at Stanford--Info needed
Date: 5 Jan 1993 02:32:34 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.cis.ksu.edu


Hi:

If you are familiar with the Ph.D. program in Industrial Engineering at
Stanford, or know somebody who is, please send me e-mail. I need to find
out more about the department. Thanks.

--baba prasad
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From: cfmdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Michael Cook)
Subject: Historical Administration Program at EIU
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:14:55 GMT

The HISTORICAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM AT EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY was
introduced in 1975 to provide classroom, hands-on, and field experience
for would-be museum and historic-site professionals and to enhance the
skills of museum and historical agency employees looking for
professional advancement.  The rigorous and structured curriculum
combines the research orientation of a traditional cultural history
program and an interdisciplinary approach to American material culture
with practical experience and academic study of museum techniques and
procedures.  

The Historical Administration Program leads to a Master of Arts degree.
The application deadline for the 1993-1994 academic year is February 1,
1993.  Please contact Professor Michael D. Cook, Coordinator, Historical
Administration Program, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston,
Illinois 61920-3099; (217)581-5943.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 21:48:32 CST
From: <U60001@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: University of Utah/Math.

Anybody familiar with Math/Grad/U of Utah?.
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow)
Subject: accounting is phd programs
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:15:45 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Keywords: ais, phd

I have a student who is interested in a phd in accounting information  
systems.  he would prefer to stay in the US.  he wants in middle of the  
road approach with an even mix of technical and business material.

thanks in advance.

--
=================================================================
*NOT* an official document of the University of Michigan - Flint
=================================================================
            David A. Cheslow
			          
E-Mail    : dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu
From: jimbob@turquoise.ucsc.edu (James R. (Jim Bob) Bill)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: Narrative Evaluations
Date: 8 Jan 1993 08:40:21 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: turquoise.ucsc.edu

I'm part of a group gathering information about the Narrative Evaluation system.
In this system, students' performance in classes is evaluated by means of a 
short paragraph or two written about her/his performance in the class (along with a
pass/fail).  The things we're trying to find out are: (we already are familiar
with the system at UC-Santa Cruz and are looking for input from other schools).

* How widespread are narrative evaluation systems?

* Are they becoming more or less common?

* What is the rationale behind this instead of grades?

* How is it implemented?

* What unique problems arise, and how are they dealt with?

* What do students, professors, administrators, and education experts
    think of these systems?

If you'd mail or post opinions on this stuff, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks much

Jim Bob Bill
Ted Ashton
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad,comp.ai.neural-nets
From: jimf@cbnewse.cb.att.com (james.r.fehrenbacher)
Subject: Re: Schools strong in neural nets? (was Request: Neural-Nets-classes in US graduate schools)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:57:52 GMT


U. of Colorado has a big emphasis on neural nets/AI.
From: 00cmmiller@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: looking for upstate n.y. schools
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:10:55 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

hello.  i'm looking for:  universities in the upper New York state
area which have good graduate programs in psychology (areas of
specilization including cognition, clinical, counseling).  i already
have r.p.i.'s address, so don't send that one.  if there are any good
schools located near r.p.i., please let me know.
thanks!!

--post or e-mail at the above address--

candace miller
department of psychology, ball state university

*my opinions do not reflect those of university computing services*
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From: dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown)
Subject: Re: Schools strong in neural nets? (was Request: Neural-Nets-classes in US graduate schools)
Organization: University of Miami, School Of Medicine
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:23:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.042815.1612@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> you write:
>
>pikoehn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Philipp Koehn) writes:
> 
>|> Do you know an university, which offers graduate classes regarding
>|>    * neural nets ,
>|>    * connectionism ,
>|>    * & such stuff ?
>
>Same here! Isn't there some kind of list available about this. If yes, I 
>think it would be a good idea to include this into the FAQ, or at least
>give an FTP address where this information can be found.

Here are some schools and their appropriate departments:

	Stanford		Psychology
	MIT			Brain and Cognitive Sciences
	UCSD			Cognitive Sciences
	Carnegie Mellon		Psychology and Computer Science
	Brown			Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
	UC Irvine		Computer and Information Sciences
	Pittsburgh		Psychology and Computer Sciences
	Boston University	Neural Systems (or something like that)
	University of CO	Computer Science
	Oregon Grad Insti	Computer Science
	Indiana			Psychology and Computer Science

Some things of note:

	1) There are many other schools with a research group that does
	connectionist work (e.g., Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, U of Rochester,
	etc.) -- I'm just mentioning a few.  (Any big research university
	is bound to have someone doing this kind of work.)
	
	2) The problem is that you will probably have to apply to a variety
	programs (as seen in the above lists) ranging from psychology to
	computer science to neuroscience, depending on what your interests
	are.  Many times, a university will have a connectionist group that
	has faculty members from several departments (Lynch from psycho-
	biology and Granger from information sciences at UCI work together,
	for instance).  This lack of organization really makes it difficult
	to apply to the ideal school.
	
	3) Many schools that have groups in more than one department will have
	an interdisciplinary program that you can participate in (Pitt/CMU has
	the Neural Processes in Cognition, CU has the Cognitive Science
	Institute, Indiana has a Cognitive Science Program, etc.)  Typically
	these will include faculty members from psychology, computer science,
	neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistics.

	4) When looking, contact the psychology and computer science programs
	first -- they are the ones most likely to have people working on 
	connectionist models.

This information resulted from me trying to find interesting graduate programs
around the country.  I should have stayed with physics, the task would have
been much easier! ;7)

Dan
From: prasad@cis.ksu.edu (Baba C Prasad)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: Phone number for Univ of Cincinatti Env. Eng Dept
Date: 5 Jan 1993 02:38:24 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.cis.ksu.edu


Hi: 
 I'm trying to get some info for a friend. Can somebody give me the
phone number for the Environmental Engineering Dept at Univ of
Cincinnatti. Please send me e-mail. Thanks.

--baba

Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: mmynatt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mary H Mynatt)
Subject: funding , financial aid
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:26:01 GMT


I'm a grad admin assistant working on a project comparing Ohio State's funding 
and recruitment of grad students with other comparable institutions. I would 
appreciate any help and info anyone can give me!

I need to know :
       1. % of tuition wavers cover (100% of tuition and fees, 50%, 25%?)
       2. do other institutions give waivers for ONLY the out-of-state portion
       3. are awards for more than one year
       4. are awards given by each department, or decided centrally
       5. what is the deadline for fellowships each year
       6. are awards given for the whole year, academic year, or term by term
and finally,
       7. what is the amount of the award(s)  (average)

Please take a few minutes to ponder these questions. I'd appreciate a reply by 
e-mail. Remember, ANY info is appreciated.

Thanks!
-- 



                 mmynatt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Schools strong in neural nets? (was Request: Neural-Nets-classes in US graduate schools)
Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:01:38 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: quasar.meaddata.com

In article <1993Jan7.042815.1612@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, pdhaes@CS.Stanford.EDU (Patrik D'haeseleer) writes:
|> 
|> pikoehn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Philipp Koehn) writes:
|>  
|> |> Do you know an university, which offers graduate classes regarding
|> |>    * neural nets ,
|> |>    * connectionism ,
|> |>    * & such stuff ?
|> 
|> Same here! Isn't there some kind of list available about this. If yes, I 
|> think it would be a good idea to include this into the FAQ, or at least
|> give an FTP address where this information can be found.


As far as I can tell, there's no such list, but from the slow trickle of
responses I've gotten, here's my scanty collection of North American graduate
schools that are particularly strong in neural networks.  Surely there are
others.  (Remember that this is based on hearsay, and on schools' own
assessments of themselves.)


U. of California at San Diego
U. of Colorado at Boulder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stanford University
Syracuse University


If anyone out there knows of others, please email me, and I'll post a
summary later.  I'm looking for schools which have several faculty
members interested in NN, teach NN courses, publish NN papers in
quantity and quality, etc.  (Lots of schools these days have a single
course in NN, so that by itself is not what I'm looking for.)


===========================================================================
Timothy Klein                 "Mellow yellow" is slang for "really groovy".
timk@meaddata.com                                         -- Jimi Hendrix
From: uprao@mcl.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: Internship vs. part-time job
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:22:35 GMT
Reply-To: uprao@mcl.ucsb.edu
Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara


 A quandry: I am currently a junior, in Computer Science, planning on going
 for a masters (in some field of computer networks) when I graduate in 1994.
 I currently have a part time job in a related field, at a mid-sized company.

 Should I work this summer at said company, or do a internship at a larger
 company (i.e., Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, HP, etc.)?  On one hand,
 working 2 years continous at a single company is a "good thing", and I
 really enjoy the work.  On the other hand, exposure to different environments
 cannot be bad.

 So from the viewpoint of a top CS grad school's applicant-review commission,
 which would be better?

--
parik rao				          prao@cs.ucsb.edu, rao@cmc.com
"Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, to
               spit in Sightblinders eye on the Last Day."  -- Wheel of Time.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:54:07 CST
From: <U60001@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: fall of 94

is it early to apply for fall of 94?. I mean is possible to apply nw
now to make sure you can get aid.
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: mpp@cns.brown.edu (Michael P. Perrone)
Subject: Re: Ethical question about reviewing papers for a conference
Organization: Center for Neural Science, Brown University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:02:42 GMT

hey, i have a novel idea: review the papers honestly!  

if that is your field of research then who would be better able to judge their
true merit?  if the papers are better than your, say so!  if not, point out 
the weaknesses.

if you simply can't distance yourself in this way then i would refuse to
review the papers.  your advisor should not force you to do something you
feel is ethically wrong.  if you can not convince your advisor, you can take
the issue to your university's committee on ethical practices.  unfortunately,
you may have to face your advisor's wrath if you take this approach which may
damage your career - a very bad situation to be in.  letting the deadline
slide as you suggested seems a good form of non-violent protest.  but i think
it would be best if you could review the papers honestly.

good luck!
michael
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 14:40:06 CST
From: <U60001@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: University of Idaho

Does anyone know about the VLSI research at EE/Ph.D. level over
there?. Can you give a general ionfo on the quality of EE/Graduate
studies over there?. Thanx.
From: mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov (Pat McClanahan)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: Non-traditional PhD
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:49:37 GMT
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
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NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I have been searching around for a 'less than traditional' PhD
program in computer science and have been meeting with mixed
success.  I have found Nova University (a little spendy for me at
$6000/year + plus travel to htheir seminars), Mind Extension
University (no PhD programs) etc.  I have also contacted many
of the individuals that atre lre listed in the posting that appears
in this newsgroup.  Mostly from them I get "Sorry, only full-time,
on-campus students only.  Our program is to difficult to 
pursue on some type of part-time basis".  How do they know that
if they have never tried it.  Many professional people that are
returning to school for advanced degrees are highly motivated
and willing to sacrifice a great deal (but obviously not their
jobs, or they would be full time, on-campus) in order to get a 
degree.

Does anyone know of any programs that are structured around the
idea that some people who would like to pursue advanced degrees
are full time employees who are not willing (or perhaps not able)
to give up their jobs.  I understand that at some point one
must be on campus and attending claseses but I dcould not
convince my employeer to let me take 4 or 5 years off and go
off to academia.  BUT - I might be able to talk him into a
quarter here,on-campus, a quarter at my job type of arrangement.

Anyway - I am just searching for alternatives and ideas.

Pat McClanahan
mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
Xref: sparky soc.college.grad:2263 comp.ai.neural-nets:4751
From: brooke@cco.caltech.edu (Brooke Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Schools strong in neural nets? (was Request: Neural-Nets-classes in US graduate schools)
Date: 8 Jan 1993 11:06:08 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu


The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has a department devoted
to neural networks (called "Computation and Neural Systems") -- in
fact, it was the first school in the country to form such a department.
The department grew out of a course started back in the mid 1980's by
John Hopfield, Carver Mead, and Richard Feynman.

Facutly members include John Hopfield (who does theoretical work and
computer simulation), Carver Mead (who works in analog VLSI and analog
implementation of neural networks), Christof Koch (who works on
computer vision), Jim Bower (who does simulation of biological
neural systems), Dmetri Psaltis (who works on optical computing and
optical implementations of neural networks), Yasir Abu-Mostafa (who
works on complexity and information theory), Jerry Pine (who studies
neurons by growing them on top of electrode grids), Rod Goodman (who
works on hardware and software implementations), and Gilles Laurent
(who studies the nervious systems of invertebrates).  There are others
who do work on applying neural networks to robotics, control, and chemical
engineering, to name a few more subjects.  I don't remember the names
of everyone involved in neural-network research at Caltech, but there
is a very wide assortment of research going on there.

Moreover, students are given a lot of latitude in picking what they
want to work on at Caltech.  So, even if you can't find an advisor
who is working exactly on what you are interested in, that shouldn't
stop you from working on it.

Caltech itself is one of the strongest schools in the world for
scientific research overall, and the Computation and Neural Systems
department is likewise one of the best.  I am an alumnus of Caltech
and of that department, so you might not trust my opinion completely.
You should of course look in the catalogs from the various schools you
are considering, send away for information on their neural-network programs,
and look in books that discuss the quality and atmosphere of various schools.
From: Dan Yurman <dyurman@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Date: 03 Jan 93 19:02 PST
Subject: Graduate courses via email?
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1471400001:000:629
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dyurman    Jan  3 19:02:00 1993


I am interested in finding US universities which support advanced
course work in environmental planning, especially land use planning
as it relates to environmental protection, via email or video.
Does nayone know of a directory of graduate programs which lists
this kind of educational program?  Please reply directly and I'll
summaries if there is interest.  Thanks.

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PO Box 1569           | MCI Mail: 364-1277  | the prepared mind.
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From: yimin@scs.carleton.ca (Rong Yimin)
Subject: None
Reply-To: yimin@scs.carleton.ca
Organization: School of Computer Scince, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:04:14 GMT

I am looking for a Graduate Supervisor to do a thesis in Master of Computer
Science. The Graduate courses I have already taken or am taking are:
	Foundations of Programming Languages
	Associative Data Structures and Advanced Databases
	Parallel Processing Systems
	Algorithm Analysis and Design
	Integrated Database Systems
	Performance Modelling
	Theory of Automata
I am currently a MCS second year student in School of Computer Science, Carleton 
University, Ottawa, Canada. My research interests are:
	Graphics and Image Processing
	Advanced Database Systems
	Performance Modelling
	Algorithm Analysis and Design
My requirement is the research funding for the thesis.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.




--
Yimin Rong
School of Computer Science,
Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada, K1S 5B6.
yimin@scs.carleton.ca.


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