Presentation and Summary Guidelines

Class presentations

As a guideline for the presentation of any paper/set of papers, the discussion should include

Please plan on discussing the presentation with me (the instructor) at least one week prior to the presentation in order to provide enough time for feedback. Each presentation will have one class period (75 minutes). Please also provide me with a copy of the presentation so I can post it on the class web page prior to the class presentation (at least the day of).

Paper summaries

I expect a (roughly) one-page summary of each paper/s discussed/presented in class by your fellow students. As a guideline, the summary should consist of (note that not all papers will be amenable to this type of summary):

The summary is due in class the day of the presentation. In order to allow incorporation of any changes you might want to make based on the discussion, I will allow turn-in by 10 a.m. the next morning.


TURN-IN INSTRUCTIONS:

* Please submit your summary in PDF format. Run the script:

python /u/cs(2 or 4)58/bin/summary_submit.py

You should receive a confirmation email when your summary has been successfully submitted.


Presentation evaluations

For each student presentation, I expect a completed evaluation form from each of you. There are dual motivations for this. First, if you have to write reviews of presentations, you will pay closer attention. Second, if you know that your presentation is being evaluated by your classmates (as well as the instructor), you may try harder to make it engaging. The ability to make engaging presentations to intelligent audiences is one of the most important skills that you need.

Some guidelines for the evaluation:

Presentation evaluations are intended to be helpful, are not anonymous, and will be returned to the presenter as feedback, so keep in mind that you want to provide constructive criticism.