CMSC 601 Research Presentation Guidelines

Spring 2009

You will have 30 minutes to give your final presentation for the class. (There will also be plenty of time for questions and discussion after each presentation.) Your presentation should be a summary of your research proposal. In the presentation, you should:

Clearly describe the problem that you hope to solve, and explain why it is important and interesting.
Survey relevant related work. You will not have enough time to do an in-depth survey, so you should focus on two types of work: (1) previous work that you are building on or extending and (2) previous approaches that failed to solve the problem that you want to solve. (For work in the second category, be sure you explain what the limitations of that work were, and why you think you will be able to overcome them.)
Describe your proposed approach, in sufficient detail to convince the listener that it is likely to succeed.
Describe your proposed evaluation criteria and methodology.
Give a detailed description of the steps that you will need to follow in order to complete the proposed research. (If you have already done part of the work, then indicate where you are in the process.)