CSC 2508H : Advanced Database
Management systems
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Goal:
There are going to be a few
assignments during the semester. Each assignment will require a 1 or 2
page summary of a technical paper. In each summary you should come up
with constructive critisism of the ideas of the paper. Summaries are
due in the beginning of the lecture following the presentation of the
paper in class. Candidate issues to raise include (but are not limited
to):
- Are you convinced that this is an important problem?
- Does it appear technically correct and if not what are the
problems?
- How do you think you could extend this work?
- Are there any other experiments (or analysis) you think would be
worth
conducting?
- Are the technical ideas still relevant today?
- Can you suggest modifications in light of technological
developments?
You will also be responsible to
produce a set of slides (approximately 20-25 slides) presenting a technical
paper from a list TBA. Your presentation should have enough material to convey the basic ideas of
the papers and also unify/contrast the approaches in the paper(s).
You will not be responsible for presenting this material,
but you will be graded based on the quality of the presentation slides
you produce. Note that we are not looking for 'flashy' presentation
slides. It is more important to make sure that you convey the main
ideas in an accurate and didactic manner.