MAS.945
Preparation for General Exams
Tod Machover, Julius O. Smith, Deb K. Roy, Andrew Lippman, Alan V. Oppenheim
By the end of the third semester, every doctoral candidate in Media Arts and Sciences must pass a general examination consisting of both written and oral components. The general exam proposal consists of three area descriptions (main, technical, contextual) and their associated reading lists. The written component consists of two 24-hour take-home open-book exams (technical, contextual areas) and a long publishable quality paper (main area). The oral component consists of a 30 minute presentation by the examinee, followed by a series of questions by the exam committee for about 2.5 hours. This page contains the documents (descriptions, papers) and schedule concerning my general exams at the MIT Media Lab.
Documents
| Cover letter to DCGS | ||
| Introduction proposal summary | ||
| Main Area: Audio, Gesture, and Music Analysis with Machines Tod Machover |
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| Technical Area: Machine Listening Julius O. Smith |
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| Contextual Area: Machine Learning Deb K. Roy |
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Schedule
| Proposal submitted to DCGS | September 16, 2002 |
| Proposal accepted by DCGS | September 26, 2002 |
| Main Area article deadline | December 20, 2002 |
| Technical Area written examination | January 23, 2003 |
| Contextual Area written examination | January 31, 2003 |
| Oral Examination (with Tod Machover, Deb K. Roy, Alan V. Oppenheim replacing Julius O. Smith, and DCGS member Andrew Lippman) | February 6, 2003 |