After further consideration, we have decided for the benefit of the class to amend the class presentations and reviews as follows: --given the length of discussion during the first presentations and the fact that interactive Q&A seemed more effective than leaving all questions to the end of the paper presentation, we are now allowing presentations to be up to 30 minutes, including Q&A. time limits will be more strictly enforced in future classes. --to ensure that all students have a chance to present twice, the number of papers that will be presented has been increased to 26 papers. --due to the larger number of papers being presented, the longer time period allowed for the presentations, and the larger class size than originally expected, we will not have additional paper reviews (as originally planned) beyond the papers that are presented in class. --to ensure that students read and gain an understand of papers before they are presented, each student will be required to write a review of each paper that is presented. the reviews are to be in ascii format and emailed to the TA at least 72 hours before the class in which the respective paper is presented. all reviews will be posted online 48 hours before the respective class so that we can learn from each others reviews before class time. a review form will be provided shortly. because of the late notice, reviews for the 2/1 papers can be emailed as late as 12 noon on 2/1. Some additional announcements: --webpage has been updated take a look. --the lottery scheduling assignment is out and due 2/10 the CLIC vmware machines should be set up and assigned by friday: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/teaching/e6118/projects/miniproject.shtml --discussion board is up and linked into web page there may be some usage restrictions from non-acis accounts but that should be resolved shortly. --presentation dates for the papers have been assigned. there are still some open slots. everyone is required to do two presentations. open slots will be assigned unless students volunteer by this friday. --a partial list of final project suggestions is up - more ideas forthcoming. --you should start thinking about your final projects and who you would like to work with. if you have any partner preferences, please email the TA. preferences should be mutual to be given full consideration. students who do not have preferences will be randomly assigned partners. -- Jason Nieh http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh From nieh@disco.cs.columbia.edu Thu Jan 27 11:03 EST 2000 Received: from disco.cs.columbia.edu (disco.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.16.7]) by ober.cs.columbia.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA13627 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:03:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from nieh@localhost) by disco.cs.columbia.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA04203; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:03:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:03:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001271603.LAA04203@disco.cs.columbia.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: disco.cs.columbia.edu: nieh set sender to nieh@disco.cs.columbia.edu using -f From: "Jason Nieh" Sender: nieh@opus.cs.columbia.edu To: cs6118@cs.columbia.edu Subject: course announcements / mini-project assignment Reply-to: nieh@opus.cs.columbia.edu Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2561 Status: OR After further consideration, we have decided for the benefit of the class to amend the class presentations and reviews as follows: --given the length of discussion during the first presentations and the fact that interactive Q&A seemed more effective than leaving all questions to the end of the paper presentation, we are now allowing presentations to be up to 30 minutes, including Q&A. time limits will be more strictly enforced in future classes. --to ensure that all students have a chance to present twice, the number of papers that will be presented has been increased to 26 papers. --due to the larger number of papers being presented, the longer time period allowed for the presentations, and the larger class size than originally expected, we will not have additional paper reviews (as originally planned) beyond the papers that are presented in class. --to ensure that students read and gain an understand of papers before they are presented, each student will be required to write a review of each paper that is presented. the reviews are to be in ascii format and emailed to the TA at least 72 hours before the class in which the respective paper is presented. all reviews will be posted online 48 hours before the respective class so that we can learn from each others reviews before class time. a review form will be provided shortly. because of the late notice, reviews for the 2/1 papers can be emailed as late as 12 noon on 2/1. Some additional announcements: --webpage has been updated take a look. --the lottery scheduling assignment is out and due 2/10 the CLIC vmware machines should be set up and assigned by friday: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/teaching/e6118/projects/miniproject.shtml --discussion board is up and linked into web page there may be some usage restrictions from non-acis accounts but that should be resolved shortly. --presentation dates for the papers have been assigned. there are still some open slots. everyone is required to do two presentations. open slots will be assigned unless students volunteer by this friday. --a partial list of final project suggestions is up - more ideas forthcoming. --you should start thinking about your final projects and who you would like to work with. if you have any partner preferences, please email the TA. preferences should be mutual to be given full consideration. students who do not have preferences will be randomly assigned partners. -- Jason Nieh http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh