Degree Project in Computer Science, First Level
Examensarbete inom datalogi, grundnivå
News and questions
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Overview
The B.Sc. degree project has two independent parts:
- The programming project in the software engineering (MVK) course, 9 hp.
- A Bachelor's essay (sv. kandidatuppsats), 6 hp. This page addresses ONLY the Bachelor's essay.
The essay is a small project executed individually or in pairs, designed to test students skills in analysing, processing, evaluating, and presenting a piece of scientific or engineering work in computer science. The official KTH description of goals for the Bachelor's essay can be found here (in Swedish).
Supervisors and groups
The course has the following supervisors:
- Vahid Mosavat (email): programming, algorithms group 1
- Douglas Wikström (email): security, protocols and systems, algorithms, programming languages group 2
- Johan Boye (email): language technology, artificial intelligence, group 3
- Per Austrin (email): algorithms, theoretical computer science group 4
- Roberto Bresin (email): sound in interaction, emotion in sound and music, sonification group 5
- Gabriel Skantze (email): speech, language technology group 6
- Anders Askenfelt (email): speech, music, group 7
- Anna Hjalmarsson (email): speech, language technology groups 8
- Petter Ögren (email): robotics, autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, computer game AI group 9
- Pawel Herman (email): algorithms, pattern recognition, optimisation, uncertainty handling group 10
Examiner
Coordinator and examiner for the Bachelor's essay part of DD143X is Mårten Björkman, KTH phone 08-7906202. Best way of contacting Mårten is by mail celle @ csc.kth.se (general course questions) or celebrandil @ gmail.com (group assignments)
Organisation
The essay work involves the following items:
- The essay itself, including project specification, written report, and an oral presentation at a final "exjobbs" conference
- Review of another essay
- Lectures in report writing and presentation techniques
The essay work starts with a kickoff in January. At the kickoff we will go through the what, how, why, and when's of the essay work, including choice of subject, supervisor assignment, and grading.
Subjects
A list of possible essay subjects is available here. Own subjects are welcome. Talk to your supervisor to make sure the subject is suitable. Note that it's highly recommended to work in pairs for you to reach the deadlines.
Schedule
| What |
Date |
Time |
Location |
How and What |
Material |
| Kickoff |
Fri 18 Jan |
11-12 |
D2 |
Lecture |
slides |
| Preferences for essay projects |
Tue 22 Jan |
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Mail to celebrandil@gmail.com |
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| Hand in of project specification |
Sun 3 Feb |
24.00 |
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Mail to your supervisor in pdf |
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| Report writing |
Fri 15 Feb |
15-17 |
D2 |
Lecture |
here |
| Halfway meetings |
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| Groups 1 & 2 |
Fri 1 Mar |
08-12 |
D35 |
Workshop |
here |
| Groups 3, 5 & 6 |
Tue 5 Mar |
13-17 |
D41 |
Workshop |
here |
| Groups 4, 7 & 8 |
Fri 8 Mar |
08-12 |
D32 |
Workshop |
here |
| Groups 9 & 10 |
Fri 8 Mar |
13-17 |
D41 |
Workshop |
here |
| Presentation techniques |
Wed 10 Apr |
15-17 |
D2 |
Lecture |
here |
| Essay hand in deadline |
Fri 12 Apr |
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Mail to your supervisor |
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| Review hand in deadline |
Tue 23 Apr |
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Mail to your supervisor |
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| Exjobbs conference |
Wed 24 Apr |
13-17 |
E31, E32, E33 |
Conference |
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Thu 25 Apr |
13-17 |
E31, E32, E33 |
Conference |
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| Final version of essay |
Thu 30 May |
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Mail to your supervisor |
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Lecture Material
Material from Richard Nordberg's lectures (many of them in Swedish):
Halfway Meetings
For the halfway meetings bring a draft essay in 3 copies. The draft must include the following:
- Title page with complete information regarding title, author(s) (name, full address, phone number, mailaddress), course information (this course w. name and number, school, university) and name of supervisor.
- Current table of content with page numbers.
- Complete list of headings expected to appear in the final essay.
- General introduction explaining the larger context in which the essay project is done, including statements of problem and aims.
- Summary of the literature (reports, papers, web sites, etc) which the author(s) have read in relation to the essay work.
- As much of the project work as has been completed.
- Results and conclusion as can be determined at the time of writing.
- Reference list and references in the current text.
- Here is a really useful resource for those of you writing in English.
Requirements and Grading
- Approved subject and project specification (pass/fail)
- Written essay, scientific and engineering quality (A-F) (grading weight: 2)
- Written essay, presention (A-F) (grading weight: 2)
- Oral presentation at the final conference (A-F) (grading weight: 1)
- Written review (A-F) (grading weight: 1)
- Oral opposition at final conference (pass/fail)
The final course grade is the average of the grade from the MVK project and the essay project, rounded downwards. More information on the grading criteria is available in the kickoff slides.
Prerequisites
Minimum is 120 hp completed of which 60 hp in computer science.
Registration
We use RAPP. Registration information is imported from LADOK, but it is very important that you activate your participation in RAPP.
More Information
More information on the essay, contents, layout,and handin procedures will be available in the FAQ.
