Seminar on Current Trends in IT
MTT 504

Lecture 5 (week 6)
 

 

 
Plan for This week
- Presentation on Homework
- Further Discussion on Paper writing using the following references
- Homework for Next week
 
Presentation of Homework by Selected students 
- Free voluteer presentation from last week or this week. Pick from the list
- For 2 or 3 gorups
       o Discuss those issues in academic related events - define them, compare them, critique them as you may want to.
       o Compare websites and tools that helps in handling those events : EasyChair and EDAS  for International and KURSI (Kemudahan Urus Sidang) for local.
       o You can also pick some conference website and comment on them;  EGI Technical Forum 2012, PRICAI2012, ICOS2012.
       o What about wikis for conference announcements such as WikiCFP
 
Discussion on Paper Reading
1. HowToReadAndCritiqueATechnicalPaper.ppt
2. IEEEArticleHowToReadTechnicalArticle-McConnell (1998).pdf

Discussion on Paper writing
 
3. HowToWiteAGreatResearchPaperSimon.pdf
4. IEEEArticleHintsTechnicalWritingPresentation(1999).pdf
5. IEEEArticleWriteGoodTechnicalArticle-McConnell(2002).pdf


Discussion on Paper Presentation
1
. HowToPresentATheoreticalPaper-Parberry.pdf
 
Homework for next week
(Group Work)

- Next week 20 December will be the submission date for the Seminar Organization Proposal.

- Each group needs to:
       o Prepare a Seminar Organization proposal (aasuming this is to request for a budget/grant from the university authority)
       o Prepare a Slide presentation for the telling the University management on the Seminar Organization.

- What to submit
       o  The proposal of some number of pages (the is no limit to the number) describing all aspect of the seminar organization.
            Again, the focus is on academic seminar/event.

- When to submit
    
 o All groups have to submit the Seminar Organization proposal on 20 December 2012 Through Turn it in website

Again,  I will ask randomly ONE or TWO groups to present .