The
full presentation is 30% of your grade.
5 Minute Presentation Schedule: (5 % of your grade)
The
schedule for your 5 minute presentation is below. Please come to class with a
floppy of your powerpoint presentation to save time. Give a list of the papers
you will present.
Procedure: You have chosen one of the topics below to do read
about and give a presentation on. Search for representative papers to read. The
papers you decide to read must be approved by the instructor. You may find the
ACM archive of SIGIR, the previous WWW conferences and CiteSeer of use.
Presentation: Your final presentation will be of professional quality in
powerpoint and is 25% of your grade. It should introduce the topic (5), discuss
the issues (5), why the topic is important (5), what has been done and how
(10), what to do next (5). It must be a critique of the area. Your presentation
should be for approximately 20 minutes (20 minutes usually means about 20
slides). Some sample presentations though some are for longer than 20 minutes
can be found at a previous
course web site. If you have questions, please talk to the instructor. Your
presentation time will be randomly assigned. It you have problems with the
schedule, please contact another student with whom you would like to switch.
Presentations cannot be postponed or cancelled. This is similar to
presentations at a conference or business meeting. The show must go on; arrange
for someone else to give it. A powerpointt copy of your presentation must be
emailed to the instructor before your presentation date.