Instructions for P1 Demos and Handin

The demonstration session for projectlet 1 will be at 9:30 on Wednesday March 8 in room 3310 Note: this is not our normal room

Each project team will be allocated 10 minutes. We'll have 2-3 minutes for overflow, extra questions, technical difficulties, ...

Each person is to prepare a 7 minute presentation. I expect you'll want to use power point or something like that. We will time people! You should show off your results (pictures, movies, running a demo, ...)

In your brief time, make sure that you:

Define the problem that you are trying to solve.
Make clear what your goal was.
Describe what you were able to accomplish.
Give some idea of how you did it

Your writeup will be able to give more details on the how.

Ideally, we would have everything on one laptop to avoid switching hassles. However, getting a demo to run on Yu-Chi's laptop can be hard too. So its your choice - you can either give your files to Yu-Chi, or you can bring your own. We'll probably group all of the talks from Yu-Chi's laptop together.

I will ask that you turn in your presentation and results along with your project writeup.

Evaluations

Everyone will be required to write evaluations of everyone else's presentation and project.

Each person should send Yu-Chi a paragraph or two about every other person's presentation and project. You should comment on both the quality of the work and the content and quality of the presentation.

Yu-Chi will annonymize the comments and give them to the recipient. We reserve the right not to forward inappropriate comments.

We will look at your comments. Part of this excersize is to help people learn to think critically in evaluating others work.

Please send your comments to Yu-Chi by email by 5pm on Thursday, March 9th. Putting the comments into one message (with the recipient clearly labeled) is preferred.

P1 Writeup

By 5pm on Wednesday March 8, you must turn in:

The materials from your presentation (slides, videos, pictures, ...)
Summaries of the 4-6 (at least) papers that you've read for the project.
A project description (as either a text file (markdown format) or a web page.

Your project description should include (not necessarily in this order):

A description of what you were trying to achieve and the problem you are trying to solve.

Note: this might not be identical to what you proposed, since things change.
A description of your results. What did you actually achieve. You may include more pictures/movies beyond what you had in your presentation.
A discussion of the methods. How did you do it? What parts did you implement, what did you "borrow"? What algorithms/methods did you use?
What did you learn from doing this? (this list might include both what you learned technically, as well as what you've learned about project planning and execution)
A self-evaluation. How well do you think you did? Are you happy with what you achieved in the time you had? What went right? What held you back? What advice would you give to someone else who might be trying a similar project next time?

What will you do the same/differently next time?
While your plan for projectlet 2 is a seperate document (see below) comment on how this project will affect your choice of what to do next.

If you are chosing to work on the same topic: give a rough idea of what you want to accomplish over the next "short" 4 weeks (its a short 4 weeks since break is in there). Are you going to do the things you didn't get to this time? Will you be able to build from what you've done?

If you are chosing to work on a different topic: give some idea as to why. Was this topic not a good choice? Not as interesting as you had thought? Easier/harder?

You should put your

Project 2 Proposal

Projectlet 2 is a very short time period (since its due by April 7th). We will not do class presentations for them either.

It is still important that you have a clear goal and plan.

You should complete a project form just as form Project 1 (the description is /Projects/p1-form.txt). Please place it in Summaries/P2-Proposals.

Please have a draft of your proposal in place by 5pm on Wednesday, March 8th. I will give you feedback before noon on Thursday. We might need some iterations to get to something acceptable. We need to have an "approved" project by 5pm on Friday, March 10th.