Scribe Note Guidelines

The lectures in this course compile information from a variety of sources. As we proceed through the course, it is necessary that notes are prepared for the lectures to compile all the concepts and ideas in a single document. Each lecture, one/two students will be the designated "scribe," taking careful notes during video lectures. The scribe note should be based on the notes taken during lecture and the associated reading materials.

Please follow the guidelines below while preparing scribe notes:

• Please keep an eye on the spreadsheet where specific lectures will be assigned to each student.

• Scribe notes should be prepared using Latex. Here is the latex template for preparing the scribe notes.

• Scribe notes should be detailed and the topic covered in the lecture should be described in depth. Instead of mentioning just the keypoints scribe notes should contain grammatically correct detailed description of the topic. Notes should be written as it would have written in a book when describing the same topic, with examples and illustrations.

• While preparing the notes, you should read relevant references (books, papers and other sources) as pointed in the lecture or assigned by the instructor. The expectation is, notes should not only cover what is taught in the lecture but also cover (in depth) the sub-topics peripherally mentioned in the lecture.

• Prepare the scribe notes in your own language. Avoid copy paste from the references or other sources. If significant plagiarism is found in the scribe notes, zero marks will be awarded. Please use proper citation for the information (examples, images, illustrations, etc.) you collect from other sources. The sources should be cited using bibtex.

• Be creative to make the topics and concepts more understandable, you can introduce some interesting examples, illustrations, refer to other important links (papers, blogs, etc.), implementation details of the algorithms, link to github/colab having a working implementation where anyone could experiment with the topic in order to understand it well.

• The scribe note PDF should be named as "CS690_Lecture_<number>_<Scribe Name>.pdf". Please replace <number> with the lecture number and <Scribe Name> with your name. After preparing the scribe notes should be emailed to the instructor with the subject line: “[CS690A]: ScribeNotes-<Scribe Name>". After receiving the initial draft, I may suggest some changes and after you incorporate those, the final version of the note should be submitted (both PDF and the latex source files).

• Scribe notes will be evaluated based on how well those are written, how well concepts are explained and how creative you are in explaining topics. The more effort you put in the better it is.

Example Scribe Note

Here is an example scribe note from the Advanced Data Structures course at MIT. This note briefly describes 'String Matching' and introduces different data structures for String Matching.