Dear friends, I have been getting a number of queries on the requirements for getting into a Master in Sciences programme lately. A majority of the queries have been general, and not specific to a particular university. I wish to share a very well explained memo from Prof. Terry Winograd, who has been an inspiration to me, and whose work and literature I have closely followed and enjoyed reading during my undergraduate years. A source of motivation in my projects too.
Please find the memo attached along with this e-mail. This is a part of Terry's response to our discussion on the work done in HCI at Stanford University (I have not copied the whole memo). Interestingly, he was the thesis adviser of Larry and Sergey in Back Rub project (later guided them to develop this project into something, which we use on a regular basis now :-) Guess!). This memo dates back to 2006, while I was in second year, and there might have been some more additions in the requirements. But, overall it would serve as a very good base. --------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Terry Winograd <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 at 11:16 PM To: manusheel gupta <[email protected]> " The degree program I am responsible for is the Computer Science Masters degree with specialization in HCI. See http://cse.stanford.edu/mscs for information on the general CS masters degree and http://hci.stanford.edu/degrees/csms-track.html for details on the HCI concentration. The CS Masters program generally accepts people with a strong undergraduate background in computer science (not just programming, but theory as well). The admissions process in computer science is not organized either by area of specialization or by professor. All candidates for a degree program are compared in a single pool by a committee selected from among the faculty and students in the department. Admission is by general qualifications, without quotas for areas of interest or choices by individual professors. In general, admissions are not determined by any one qualification. The committee looks at all the indicators: Grades, GREs - both general and subject, TOEFL (for non-native English speakers), recommendations, work experience, published papers, etc., to get an overall assessment of how successful the student will be. There is no formal cutoff, but we generally expect a high (A or A-) grade average in technical courses, and top decile performance on math and analytic GREs. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me." ----------------------------- Regards, Manu Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php
