CS511 Project Presentation Schedule

Note: (1) Please see the guidelines at the bottom of the page. (2) The schedule was initially based on the random order generated using this this perl script. Each team is represented by a string formed by concatenating the last names of the team members (or the first name and last name in the case of a single-member team) in alphabetical order and adding the number of people in the team as the prefix. The schedule was then changed to accommodate the unexpected delay of a project due to a team member dropping the course recently.

Dec. 6, Wednesday, 2:00pm-3:15pm, SC 1304
- 2:00--2:25: No-Schema SQL Queries for Relational Databases (Team: A. Boot, M. Karimzadehgan, K. Kelly, M. Maur, J. Yu) (slides, report)
- 2:25--2:50: UIUC Event Database (Team: S. Jeong, J. Jung, C. Lee, E. Lee, A. Palczewski) (report)
- 2:50--3:15: Ranking Database Objects (Team: G. Agarwal, N. Mallick, S. Tannert, S. Turuvekere) slides, report)
Dec. 8, Friday, 2:00pm-3:15pm, SC 1304
- 2:00--2:25: Mining Fuzzy Entity Relation Graphs (Team: Y. Chung, S. Kim, A. Kotov) (slides, report)
- 2:25--2:50: UIUC People Finder (Team: H. Jung, J. Laipple, S. Lee, S. P. Lee, R. Redder) (slides, report)
- 2:50--3:15: A Top-K Query-Based Data Cube Visualization Tool (Team: T. Wu) (slides, report)

How to present your project?

At the end of the semester, each team is required to make a powerpoint presentation to the class. For a team with more than one person, it is up to the team to decide how you would like to run the presentation. You may have one person to present the whole project or have multiple people to present project.

You should think of this as if it were a conference talk. In general, you will need to define and motivate the problem, describe your method(s), discuss the results, make conclusions, and discuss how the work can be further improved (i.e., future directions). Think very clearly about the key message you want to convey, and see how you can best use the given time slot to effectively convey the message to people.

Each project will have 25 minutes for the entire presentation. You should plan to finish your talk within 20 minutes to leave enough time for questions and feedback from the audience. The following is a list of the elements you should include in your presentation, along with a suggested breakdown of the time. These are meant to be guidelines, though; you should make adjustment according to the actual contents of your presentation.

[3 min] Concise introduction to the problem you work on
[2 min] Briefly describe the main idea of your project (expected contribution of your project)
[9 min] Briefly explain the technical challenges that you needed to solve and how you solved them.
[5 min] Briefly discuss any experiment results or sample system output.
[1 min] Mention some future work.

Each presentation will be graded mainly based on three factors: (1) clarity of the presentation; (2) the effectiveness of using time; (3) how well you answer questions. In general, all the students in a project group will get the same grade for the project presentation unless your individual progress report and the project report together cannot provide sufficient evidence that you have made substantial contributions to the project, in which case you may get a lower grade than your teammates.