What to prepare for  the demonstrations

 

The project demonstrations for CS514 will take place in 315 Upson Hall, the undergrad lab adjoining the main lab, where WebLogic is installed, on Monday, December 11th from 10-12. We’d prefer it if your entire group turned up for the demonstration, but a quorum would be fine, providing the absent members agree! If none of your group can make it to the scheduled time, please mail me at batkin@cs.cornell.edu, and we can arrange an alternative time. You’ll get a computer to set up your demonstration on, and then you’ll have to wait for us to get around to you. Once we’ve seen your demo, you can go home.

 

In grading your project, we will take into consideration three parts of it: a report, which we would like you to give to us on the day; a poster, which we would like you to make to accompany your demonstration; and the content of the demonstration itself. To elaborate further:

·         you should write a short (at most 2-page) report giving the following: who is in your group, if anyone is doing the project as their MEng project, an brief explanation of what your project does, how long it took, how many lines of code you wrote, and who did what.

·         make a poster (“of the usual size”, about 24 by 30 inches) explaining what your project does and what results you have. This should give a good overview of what you did, put together the sort of poster that would be suitable for BOOM, the department’s annual CS fair, next year. You are encouraged to consider displaying your work at BOOM! Professor Birman has pointed out that it’s possible to get a Powerpoint presentation printed out onto a poster at Kinko’s, for that professional look; feel free to investigate.

·         plan out what you would like to say to us and show us if you have 3-4 minutes. You should at least explain what’s on the poster and show your program running, if you have it in a state where there’s something to see. Your demonstration might flow more smoothly if you choose someone to be the group spokesperson.

 

The procedure will go like this: you tell one of us what you want to say and give the demonstration, we will ask some questions, and it will all be over.

 

If you don’t have your project finished and ready to demonstrate, we would still like you to come up with the report, and the poster if possible, outlining your design. And you should definitely still come to the demonstration so that we can talk to you! With this in mind, you should aim to have the easy stuff in your project working before you work on the harder stuff, so you will have something to demonstrate.

 

Benjamin Atkin