CSSE 490 - Impact of AI: Assignments

• [Presentations as assigned] For each presentation, everyone has to read at least the abstract, introduction and conclusions, and should skim the paper for interesting information, if the paper is available online.

  If you cannot get to a paper, because you ran out of free reads or do not have a subscription, please let me know.

  Presenters have to read, understand, and present the paper. You also have to lead the class discussion, following your presentation. You want to do two things: (1) give a concise presentation of the material in the paper (2) evaluate the contributions of the paper. Please be prepared to give a 20 minute presentation with about 5 minutes of discussion, which you have to lead.

  See whether you can find some cool videos or demos or other materials that help demonstrate the concepts presented in the paper.

  You probably end up reading the paper several times. While you want to be critical of the material presented in the papers, you want to give a fair presentation of its contents. Attempt to be an advocate of the authors. If portions of the paper do not come to you, feel free to contact the lead author. They will be thrilled about your inquiry, because there is nothing like knowing that people actually read your papers. More likely than not, they will be more than happy to explain things to you and provide you with additional materials. So please start on your papers early, so as to get the chance to contact authors. Hey, you may decide to go to grad-school to study with them!

  For your presentation, please make slides of figures in the paper. You may find additional resoruces on the author's web-sites. Don't forget to leave ample time for discussion, which may take place during your presentation or afterwards. If you have questions about your presentation, please get in touch with me. While I am not an advocate of PowerPoint presentations, they are a tremendous help in focusing your thoughts on what to present.

  Finally, provide me with a draft of your presentation at least 24 hours before you give it.

• Project Social We will have yummy cookies. Please bring your own tea, coffee or H2O. We will mingle and talk about your current project ideas. The objective of this session is to form groups of appropriate size for your chosen project. In preparation for the social, please read about five resources that appear to be central to your proposed work. At least two of them ought to be research papers. Please be prepared to say a few things about your intended project. Please make a brief flyer, containing the title of your proposed project, your and any collaborators names, a brief (about one paragraph description of your proposed project and the references.) After this session, please communicate the tentative group memberships to me.

• Rocket Pitch of your intended project proposal. You get three minutes and three slides to present a draft of your proposal to the class. This will be followed by a brief discussion intended for clarification Ensure that your presentation is very concise. Among others, address in what way your proposed work is innovative and how it builds on existing work. Among others, we are hoping to form groups with the rocket pitch.

• Project proposal. Please look at this as the absolut latest date to submit the proposal. Feel free to submit your project proposals at any time. I will be happy to give you feedback so that you can get going on your project.

• Project presentation. Please submit your presentation to the appropriate drop-box.

• Project write-up. Please submit your report to the appropriate drop-box. Please also submit a zipped copy of the software you produced.