Organization
Students have to form groups of TBA and each group will have to read a research paper, write a report, and give a 20 min presentation about the paper.
Presentation
The presentations will be given in a single block session on TBA in room TBA. You have to email your slides (e.g., powerpoint or latex) to the TA or instructor the night before your talk. The schedule for talks will be given once talks are assigned. Please read the links below on how to give a good presentation.
Detailed schedule:
Report
You will have to write a report that summarizes the content of the paper, explains its main ideas in a way understandable by the other students in the course (they should not have to read another 20 paper to understand what you are writing about), and gives an objective critic of the presented methods or systems. There are no page limitations, but try to avoid lengthy and verbose writing as well as short and incomprehensible reports. Again read some of the links below to get some ideas about how to write a good paper or report.
Late policies:
- 1-3 days late: -10% points
- 4-7 days late: -20% points
- > 7 days late: 0 points
Time schedule
We expect the deliverables according to the following deadlines:- 02/22 - Read the paper and determine the structure of the report and meet with Prof./TA to discuss structure
- 03/28 - Initial draft of the reports due and first review meeting with Prof./TA
- 04/15 - First draft of slides due and slide review meeting with Prof./TA
- 04/18 - Final reports due
Help for writing the report, preparing slides, and giving a talk
How to give a presentation and prepare slides:
- Page giving information on how to give a talk and prepare slides.
- http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~messer/Bad_talk.html - Bulletpoints on how to give a (bad) good talk.
- Other slides on how to give a good talk
How to write a scientific article:
- Page on how to write an CS article. Also comments on some general writing rules.
- Simon Peyton Jones slides and video on how to write a great research paper
Literature Review Papers
The paper for the literature review part of the course are shown here. You will have until 02/05 to form groups. We will send you a link to a form for voting on papers.