CSE 624, Spring 2011: Advanced Operating Systems

Presentation Instructions

All students will present one paper in class.

Please send email to Don Porter by the end of the first week of class with your top three preferences for papers to present. Don will aggregate the requests and make the final assignment. If you have questions, please ask.

Presentation format

For your assigned paper:

• Please prepare a 15 minute presentation, uninterrupted. There will be no interruptions during the presentation.
• We are going to enforce the 15 minute limit strictly, so you may wish to practice with a clock to ensure that your presentation will meet the timing constraint.
• Please try to bring out interesting issues in the paper during your presentation, rather than just summarizing it. Everyone should have read the paper and should not need summary.
• Issues may include, but are not limited to: technical objections or concerns, particularly interesting material in the paper, relevant background material the class likely has seen before that clarifies the paper, and careful explanation of particularly difficult parts of the paper with visual aids. When in doubt whether something is sufficiently interesting, ask.
• As part of your presentation, please try to state your opinion of two strengths and two weaknesses of the paper.
• Don will lead the discussion after the presentation, so you do not need to plan discussion questions. If, however, there are questions that you would like to bring out, please do so either during the discussion or by emailing us the questions ahead of class.

Speaking advice

Mike Dahlin has collected a lot of useful advice for researchers. Check it out! The "good talk" and "bad talk" links might be especially useful.

Don't copy!

If you use your own slides, which is fine, please send them to us afterward. Please do not look at other presentations that you might find on the Web; you may be tempted to copy, lift, or borrow from them, thereby violating the university's academic integrity rules.

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