CS349D: Project Information

Proposal

Your project proposal should be 2-3 pages long (signle column, minimum 10pt font size). The proposal should include the following information:

• The team members (names and Stanford email address)
• The problem you want to address including some background information on the topic (e.g., a few key references)
• The specific goals you want to achieve (expected results)
• The methodology and required resources
• A brief timeline for the rest of the quarter

Submit a single proposal per team by email to qianli@cs.stanford.edu. The deadline is end of the day of October 15th.

Mid-term Review

In preparation of your meeting with the instructors to review progress and issues with your project, please prepare and submit a presentation (ppt or PDF) that includes the following information:

• The team members (names and Stanford email address)
• A review of the problem you are addressing (be specific now)
• Your technical approach
• Your methodology
• Preliminary results: measurements of the problem, feasibility experiments, lessons from using the tools you will rely on, etc
• Roadmap for the rest of the quarter
• Obstacles, dependencies, concerns, and unrsolved issues. Where possible, list backup plan

Submit a single presentation per team by email to qianli@cs.stanford.edu. The deadline is end of the day of November 6th.

Final Presentations

We suggest the following outline for your talk:

• The problem
• The idea
• Design and implementation (1-2 slides)
• What works/status
• A key measurement/experiment

Feel free to deviate if needed for your projects but make sure you stick to the main points (do not try to cover all your results) and do practice. Please email your slides in PDF format to qianli@cs.stanford.edu by 9:30 AM on 5th.

Final Reports

Submit a 10-12 page project report covering the motivation, design, and results of your work by 11:59 PM on December 9th to qianli@cs.stanford.edu. The paper should be 10-12 pages long, single-spaced, with 12 pt. font, and single-column layout. If you are using latex, you could try IEEEtran template and specify the template in your document:
\documentclass[journal,onecolumn,12pt]{IEEEtran}

Adapted from a template by Andreas Viklund.