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# Course Project
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This course covers a wide range of topics in security and privacy. The goal of
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the course project is to dive more deeply into a particular topic individually
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or in groups of two. This project could take different forms:
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- **Theoretical**: Extend a technique, explore a new application, or develop
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some other kind of conceptual contribution.
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- **Experience report**: Experiment with an existing implementation, trying out
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different examples and describing the overall experience. Or make a new
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implementation.
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- **Literature survey**: Select a couple (3-5) of related papers in a recent
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research area. Summarize the significance, then compare and contrast.
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- **Other**: Feel free to propose other kinds of projects.
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A good project will be the start of a potentially publishable result.
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## Deliverables
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In order to keep projects on track, each group will turn in two short (**1-2
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pages**) milestone reports along the way. At one-third of the way through, you
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should have settled on a project goal and made some exploratory steps.
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- **Milestone 1**. Describe the project goal concretely, summarize what
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preliminary things have been tried, and plan out which directions to explore
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next.
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At two-thirds of the way through, the project should be progressing and it
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should be clear what remains to be done.
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- **Milestone 2**. Clarify the project goal if it has changed, summarize current
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progress, and plan out how to finish remaining items.
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Besides the milestones, the main deliverable of the project will be a final
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report, around **15-20 pages** in length. Reports should be written in a
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research paper style, covering the following broad areas in some order:
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- **Introduce** the problem and the motivation.
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- **Review** background and preliminary material.
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- **Develop** the main technical core of the project.
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- **Survey** related work.
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- **Summarize** and evaluate the results.
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At the end of the course, each group will present their project in class.
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## Deadlines
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The most immediate task is to form groups (if desired) and select a preliminary
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project topic. Discuss with the instructor or send an email with the project
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topic and group members (less ideal) by **???**.
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Deadlines for the deliverables are [here](../schedule/deadlines.md).
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