CS237 Project presentation information
Overview
Each PI will be responsible for presenting their proposal in class on
10/3, or 10/5. Presentation times are listed below. Please be on time and
prepared to give your presentation promptly.
Guidelines for presentation
You will have 20 minutes for your presentation. Your goal should be
to motivate the project well enough that the reviewers will get the
big picture and understand how the participants will work together to
solve the project. You'll have time to also go into some of the
background and related work for your project. A list of the
milestones for the project would also be appropriate.
Make sure that you:
- state the problem
- state your hypothesis or approach
- explain the process you'll go through during the project
- describe the current state-of-the-art and fit your project into
that context
- describe the milestones you'll achieve
- list the participants and their roles
Practice your presentation. Give it to your friends and make sure
that they understand it. Pay attention to the parts that seem to
require a lot of explanation and refine them. You'll find that you
get better at explaining the big picture as you try to do so with
different people and at different times. Pay attention to being
brief. If you don't need to explain something to get your message
across, leave it out. Practice while you're in line for lunch. The
explanations should be understandable to someone who can read a
Scientific American article. Practice with our Rhetoric Fellow
and incorporate her suggestions.
The second 20 minutes in each presentation slot will be for questions
and feedback from the audience/reviewers. The presentation is
an opportunity for you to get feedback on your proposal from the same
people who will be reviewing it in a few weeks and making the funding
decisions. Listen to the feedback. Write it down. Take it home and
think about it as you revise your proposal.
Schedule and reviewers
The schedule below was created in class. Please review the proposal
you were assigned before the presentation time and
bring your questions and comments to the presentation. Written
reviews by everyone of everyone else's proposals are due to be both
handed in and e-mailed to proposal authors by end of day 10/10.
10/3
2:30
Mike Kirby
3:10 Josh Tasman
10/5
2:30 Marty Lichtman
3:10 Scott Davidson
David Laidlaw
Last modified: Sat Sep 30 00:26:44 EDT 2000