CS 7123, Fall 2008, UTSA

Important Information

Time and Location: Monday, Wednesday 8:30-9:45pm, MS 2.02.12
Instructor: Jeffery von Ronne

Presentation and analysis of literature in a selected area of research.

12/1/2008 #1: Nihat Altiparmak will present Ballani and Francis: Mitigating DNS DoS Attacks (Readers: Fred and Tony)
12/1/2008 #2: Andreas Gampe will present Solar-Lezama et al.: Sketiching Concurrent Data Structures (Readers: Tony and Yifeng)
12/3/2008: Tony Castaldo will present Goto and van de Guijn: Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication (Readers: Lijie and Steve)

1-page typed
~ half-page summary of the motivation, problem, and solution described in the paper
~ half-page evaluation of the novelty, significance, and soundness of the paper
evaluated pass / no pass
email to vonronne@cs.utsa.edu by 5pm on the date of the talk (preferred) OR bring a hard copy to class

How to Read a Research Paper
How to give a Seminar Talk
Advice on Research and Writing
Section 5 of the Latex Beamer User's Guide has some general advice on how to structure presentations. (The rest of the guide is helpful if you want to use LaTeX instead of PowerPoint.)
Alan Jay Smith's The Task of the Referee is about how referees should write their reviews for articles submitted to journals, but the comments should also be helpful in how to evaluate research papers more generally.