Presentations (cont.)
•Preparing the talk: I’ll will meet with each group at least three times:
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–Agree on goals:
•What are the papers about?
•What do you want to teach the students?
•Any other relevant papers?
•Which papers should the class read and review?
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–Draft of slides:
•you should know what the message of each slide should be,
•but don’t spend time (yet) drawing complicated figures, etc.
–Final slides:
•look over the final slides,
•go over questions for the audience.
•Web contains plenty of good advice on how to give talks:
–E.g., http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/conference-talk.html