Please identify a real or hypothetical area of research interest and use it to answer the rest of the questions. Here are some suggestions: Biosensors, bioinformatics, medical training systems, information retrieval, functional genomics, databases, artificial intelligence, neural nets, human-computer interaction, etc. Be as specific or as general as you would like.
1. Write a short paragraph to explain what the area is and why it is important (sell the area to your reader).
2. Can you identify 2-3 important ideas/advances/discoveries in this area?
3. Can you name publications, researchers, or laboratories/schools closely related to this area?
1. You are ready to do research in your identified area, how would you get started? Where would you get ideas from?
2. Specify the extent to which you agree, or disagree, with the following statements:
3. List some effective ways to get feedback on your research
4. If you were given a research paper to review, what questions would you try to answer about the paper?