• You need to email me to request a paper to be assigned to your name: one for short (7%), the other for long (10%); one of them has to be completed by the first half of the semester. All assignments are based on FCFS, please check the web site so that you will not list the choices that have been taken.
• All presentations must be either in powerpoint or in pdf format.
• Each presentation should be approximately 15 minutes for short and 25 minutes for long , plus time for questions and discussions.
• By 9am of your presentation day, email your file to me so it can be transferred onto my notebook. Otherwise, bring your U-driver/CD (no floppy disc please) or your own notebook to the class.
• You are welcome to refine the topic and scope, or suggest new topics, and find papers and materials to be presented with my consensus.
• Among those Thursday's except your presentation days, personally hand in a summary writeup (within one page) based on one of papers to be presented on that day. You need to do it seven times in total to accumulate your 7% credits.

Many of the papers have been presented recently in conferences. You may be able to locate slides, figures, or other materials for your presentation on the authors WWW site. You still need to customized it into our class. When you are presenting the paper, you will be leading the class. Thus it is important that you are prepared. In addition to presenting the contents of each paper, you should also present a critical analysis of the paper.

• What were the strengths of the paper?
• What were the weaknesses?
• How the work is relevant to the topics of this class?
• What future work is suggested by this paper?
• Compare the paper with other related works if you know some.

The topic list for reading and presentation is at the course web page, and will be lively updated. The item, even after its posting, may be changed unless it has been requested and assigned.