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Attendees
AY 2015-2016 Members: Jont Jont Allen, Can Bayram, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, John Dallesasse, Arne Fliflet, Patricia Franke, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Kiruba Haran, Yih-Chun Hu, Nam Sung Kim, Erhan Kudeki Kudeki (Ex-Officio), Rakesh Kumar, Stephen Levinson, Yi Lu, Jonathan Makela Makela (Chair), Serge Minin, Chandrasekhar Radhakrishnan, Maxim Raginsky, William Sanders (Ex-Officio), Christopher Schmitz, Jose Schutt-Aine, Paris Smaragdis, Lav Varshney, Shobha Vasudevan, Venugopal Veeravalli, Lara Waldrop, Hao Zhu
Discussion Items
| Time | Item | Who |
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| 5min | Approve minutes from September 16, 2015 | Makela |
| 10min | Discuss/vote on: - ECE 498RS: Networking for Big Data [Proposal Form and Syllabus]
- How do MATLAB and C play into the course (and is it really an "and" - both are required - as stated in the prerequisite). How will MATLAB and C interface with the MapReduce/Hadoop topics specified in the syllabus?
- Srikant's response: Matlab and C are for simulations of algorithms for load balancing, etc. This is different from MapReduce (or Spark) which will be used to illustrate some simple parallel programs.
- Does Srikant have an opinion on having ECE 220 as a prerequisite? Does he expect students at the Junior level to be able to succeed in this course?
- Srikant's response: I am not against adding 220 as a pre-req. Some knowledge of programming will be useful, and so 220 may be appropriate. If students have taken 313 and 220, I do think they can succeed, even as juniors.
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| 35min | Discussion on course delivery in introductory core courses - Preliminary report from ECE 120 task force
- Preliminary report from ECE 220 task force
- Pertinent information from ECE 110
- Interesting and somewhat pertinent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education
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