This seminar has 2 main goals:

1. Introduce systems and networking students to a breadth of top-notch and award quality papers that everyone else in the systems&networking is talking about today.

2. Have students give top-quality presentations, and prepare themselves for future job and conference talks.

Students will be able to obtain 1 hour credit for this seminar -- please register through the usual channels for CS 591 SN. 

Note: If you have, in the past, taken Nitin's Systems and Networking seminar and/or Luo/Kravetz's Wireless Networking seminar: those two seminars have been merged into CS 591 SN. Neither of those previous two seminars are being offered during Spring 2006, but you can take (at least for this semester) CS 591 SN.

Suggestions on Doing a Good CS591SN presentation

• Use examples - the more and the earlier, the better. It improves clarity.
• Use pictures - the more, the better. It improves clarity.
• Use text only where absolutely necessary - it puts folks to sleep and makes them ask more nasty questions.
• Jump into the "meat" of the paper as quickly as possible - within the first 3 slides is best.
• Anticipate questions that you're likely to get - better still, prepare slides that have answers (or non-answers) to these questions.
• If the paper being presented is not yours, try to do justice to the authors' contribution, but also make sure you state alongside what your personal/research opinion is about each of the authors' design decisions (this can pre-empt questions, esp. if the design decision is questionable).
• Remember - if you didn't write the paper, you can question everything in it. But at the same time, there is a reason why it got into a top conference.  
• Finally, keep track of time, because it is the only thing guaranteed to increase monotonically.
• Also finally, don't be discouraged or feel bad if lots of nasty questions were asked in your presentation. The original paper was probably not so good, and/or your presentation exposed the shortcomings of the paper (which is a good thing anyway). 

SCHEDULE

Note: If you are signed up for credit, and/or would like to present a paper, please contact the appropriate "Faculty Host" (see below) for the session in which your chosen paper belongs. If no papers are listed for that session yet, you may also send paper suggestions to the faculty host.

News and Announcements:

4/28: Last Meeting: Mandatory Attendance! Short Class - only agenda is course evaluations.

1/27: First Meeting at 2.00 pm. Location 1111 SC (confirmed). It is mandatory for students to show up, especially if they're taking the course for credit.

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