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