11/21/06 - Presentation times for next week

12:00-12:10	Tuesday, Nov. 28	Thursday, Nov. 30
12:10-12:20	Ian Rickard	Varun Bhagwan
12:20-12:30	David Bigelow	Jan Pieper
12:30-12:40	Roberto Pineiro	Neerja Bhatnagar
12:40-12:50	Esteban Molina-Estolano	Foaad Khosmood
12:50-1:00	Andrew Shewmaker	Suresh Iyer and Jaeheon Yi
1:00-1:10	Lefteris Sidirourgos	Eric LaLonde
1:10-1:20	Casey Marshall	Ian Pye
1:20-1:30	Vladi Petkov	Darren Fitzpatrick
1:30-1:40	Hsin-Chen Chiao	Gloria Chatzopoulou
1:40-1:50		Janaki Madhavan

Some guidelines for the presentations:

• We have a full schedule; all talks must finish in <= 10 minutes. I will stop you at 10 minutes.
• A good rule of thumb is 1-2 minutes per slide. Aim for 5-6 slides.
• Practice your talk ahead of time so that you know you can get through it in the time alotted.
• Most people talk fast when they are nervous, and it is normal to be nervous when talking in front of a group. It is best to bring a little extra material and be prepared to cover it or skip it, as time permits. A 2-minute talk is almost as problematic as a 20-minute talk.
• Bullet items on slides are not sentences: include only as many words as are necessary to communicate the ideas. Busy slides are distracting, not helpful. If you need nodes to remember what you want to say, bring notes--they don't belong on your slides.
• Your audience knows less about your subject than you do, so a good introduction to and motivation of the problem you are addressing are essential before you begin discussing your solution.
• Sample outline:
  
  • Title slide
  • Background/Motivation/Problem Statement
  • Solution
  • Design/Experimental Methodology
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  You don't have to follow this outline exactly, and I expect more descriptive slide titles, but the basic idea should be clear.

11/15/06 - Meeting times for today:
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Time		Name
8:30-9:00		Andrew Shewmaker
9:00-9:30		Gloria Chotzopolou
9:30-10:00		Ian Pye
10:00-10:30		Casey Marshall
10:30-11:00		Esteban Molina-Estolano
11:00-11:30		Jaeheon Yi and Suresh Iyer
11:30-12:00		David Bigelow
12:00-1:00		Lunch
1:00-1:30		Eric Lalonde
1:30-2:00		Vladi Petkov
2:00-2:30		Hsin-Chen Chiao
2:30-3:00		Neerja Bhatnagar
3:00-3:30		Roberto Piniero
3:30-4:00		Janaki Madhavan
4:00-4:30		Ian Rickard
4:30-5:00		Darren Fitzpatrick
5:00-5:30		Foaad Khosmood
5:30-6:00		Lefteris Sidirourgos

And: Tuesday, 11/21, 2:00-2:30, Jan Pieper and Varun Bhagwan

11/13/06 - I will bring the signup sheet for meeting times to class tomorrow.

11/09/06 - By mutual agreement we are changing the paper assigned for Tuesday. Look at the reading list for the changes.

10/17/06 - OOPS. I mistakenly announced that we would be talking about the Ceph paper on Thursday. Please trust the posted schedule: XFS and WAFL Thursday, Ceph and LBFS on Tuesday.

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