Presentation schedule

Order was determined randomly. To ensure smooth transitions between talks, please send me your slides in advance in either PPT or PDF format, or show up to class with your talk on a USB stick.

You should restrict your talk to 8 minutes. This leaves room for approximately 5 slides if you take a moderate pace, with up to 8 possible (1 slide/minute). The choice is yours, and depends on how densely you write them. An optimal talk will cover the following points:

  1. What is the topic?

  2. What major bodies of work did you encounter on this topic in the literature? For example, if you were researching distributed file systems, you would list things like NFS, Coda, Intermezzo, AFS, etc...

  3. What topics from the course did you recognize in your research? This could include replication mechanisms, routing algorithms, higher-level programming abstractions (e.g.: RMI), etc... The goal is to connect the topic area to the general concepts from the class.

  4. Describe in detail some of the major ideas, systems, or designs that you encountered. In the distributed filesystem case, this would be a slide dedicated to NFS pointing out it's major features, another for AFS, and so on. Depending on the topic of your paper, how you choose these few "depth" slides varies.

  5. Conclude with comments on other areas that your literature search has yielded that you won't have time to look at this term, but would follow up on given more time.

The order in which the names are listed here will be the order of the talks each day.

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