March 1 amendment: Because of the large class size, three people per class session will present, with 25 minutes each. I will give you two papers, you pick one more on your own.
March 8 amendment: Please send me the URL (if available online) and bibliographic citation of the paper you choose.
March 10 amendment: If you are using your own laptop, please
send me a note by noon the day of your presentation telling me this.
Showing a demo or a video of one of the systems in action can be very
helpful to show your colleagues the look and feel of an interactive
system. If you want do this and plan to use my laptop to present,
contact me in advance (at least the day before) so that we can sort
whether the demo will indeed run. Please inform me in advance if you
will require a VCR during your presentation.
Note that this presentation style is quite different from what was
assigned in last year's course, so do not simply follow the previous
style.
Do not send me large files via email. You should post your
course-related materials (slides, assignments, proposals, final
project reports) on your personal web site, and send me the URL. I
will then upload your work to the course web site, so that it is
archivally available. If you don't already have a personal site, see
the webpage
setup section of the CS Dept FAQ for how to set one up in the CS
domain.
You may use my laptop for presentations, it can run either Linux or
Windows. If you need to use anything except for PDF or PowerPoint,
check with me in advance to make sure that the required software is
installed on my machine. Slides are due on the day of class:
Also send me the URL (or citation) of your chosen third paper.
Topics
Topic and Time Signup
Send me your top three topic choices, and if desired up veto up to
three days on which you do not want to present, by Tuesday March 2 at
5pm. I will send out the schedule and paper lists soon after that.
Content
Your presentation should not simply outline the
papers. You will need to present the critical ideas in the paper so
that your colleagues in the class have a basis for understanding your
subsequent discussion. Part of this assignment is to use your
judgement on what those critical ideas are and how to concisely
present them. You should compare the approaches of the five papers, by
a specific discussion of their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Critique whether the proposed tools and techniques in these papers
actually solve the intended domain problem.
Slides
You should prepare slides to accompany your talk. Last year's course has many good examples
of student presentations. You may use the software platform of your
choice to present these slides, as long as it's also possible to
provide a cross-platform readable version of your talk for the course
web site: for instance, HTML+images, or PDF. PowerPoint is fine (it's
easiest for you to give me the PowerPoint file, and then I generate
the HTML+images from it).
Presentation Preparation
For advice on giving technical talks, see
Tamara Munzner
Last modified: Tue Mar 9 09:55:53 PST 2004