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After a semester’s work, the students of Computer Science 96 (CS 96), “System Design Projects,” found they could prevent the misallocation of 1,200 teaching fellows (TFs) and proposed their model of course enrollment predictions to University administrators...
According to its course description, CS 96 aimed to resolve the debate on preregistration, reporting its “target application is prediction of student enrollments based on historical data...
After surveying 13 percent of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, the CS 96 students decided that TF hiring efficiency could be improved with better modeling of course enrollment, according to Sheiber...
...Personally, I thought that we did a pretty good job since what we were doing was highly theoretical,” said Christopher D. Bockman ’06, a student in CS 96. “We did the best we could with the given time that...
Shieber warned, however, that the CS model itself is not foolproof. For example, it would not recognize that a course such as a sophomore tutorial is a required class for all concentrators and would most likely underestimate the number of students who will take the course...