CMSC 691B Research Presentation Guidelines
Spring 2006
You will have 25 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.)