{"id":83,"date":"2024-02-20T19:13:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:14:02","slug":"research-introduction-seminar-computer-science-research-methodology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/research-introduction-seminar-computer-science-research-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Introduction Seminar: Computer Science Research Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Master Level \u2013 Spring Semester<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of this course is to teach students the basis of the <em>computer science research methodology<\/em>, i.e., how the research community in computer science is developing, testing and validating new ideas and concepts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through this course, students will learn to identify and read relevant research papers with a critical view, to extract and understand key innovations from those papers and to evaluate the scope and validity of those innovations.&nbsp; This course is also an introduction to research in computer science for students who consider pursuing their curriculum with an academic master thesis and\/or doctoral studies in ICT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Content<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The course is structured around a set of fundamental questions related to computer science research and associated methodology, some of which are listed hereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is research? Why do it in universities? What is the basis of the scientific method?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is specific about computer science research? What is its methodology?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the notion of state of the art and why is it important in research?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is a scientific publication and what is the process to produce one?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How is research in computer science evaluated? Where is it published?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How is the computer science research community organized?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are some key research areas in computer science?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/applicationspub.unil.ch\/interpub\/noauth\/php\/Ud\/ficheCours.php?v_enstyid=81368&amp;v_ueid=173&amp;v_langue=fr&amp;v_isinterne=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Course description<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doplab.unil.ch\/csrm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doplab.unil.ch\/csrm\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Level \u2013 Spring Semester Summary The goal of this course is to teach students the basis of the computer science research methodology, i.e., how the research community&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001164,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mathiashumbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}