520 Computer Architecture Undergraduate Research 20043

• March 30th Topic Registration
• April 27th Talk Outline are due in class.
• May 2nd - May 5th Practice presentation (times will be scheduled later)
• May 9th - May 11th Final class presentation (times will be scheduled later)

• General Students will research and present some current topic in computer architecture. Each student will have to write a 1-2 page presentation outine and present their research in a 12-15 minute presentation.

• Topic. Your research topic shall be a review and discussion of some recent topic in computer architecture. Your work should reference a research paper published within the last 5 years (2000 or later) from reputable technical journals or proceedings from related conferences. Note that books or chapters from books do not satisfy this requirement.

  Each student must register their topic with me by March 30th: To register, you must submit your name, a title, short abstract, and a bibliography. The bibliography must include at least the paper you are planning to discuss. All of the above must be e-mailed to my account (paw@cs.rit.edu) with the subject line: 520 Research Topic

• Presentation Outline You will be expected to put together a brief 1-2 page outline of your presentation. This outline should include the major topics that you will be discussing, as well as some notes giving some details that you would want to highlight for each topic.
• Presentation Notes I am not looking for just a summary of the article, instead I am looking for a presentation that discusses the background of the problem the research paper is trying to solve, the solution presented in the article, results of the solution, and your thoughts on the research and results.

• Deliverables. You must turn in two copies of your outline, one for grading and the other for my records. In addition, you will also be expected to turn in copies of the journal article that you used, the article will be returned with your graded outline.

• Class Presentation Each student will have to present their research in a 12-15 minute talk during the last 2 weeks of class.

• Class Presentation Grading The Class Presentation is worth a total of 8% of your final grade. That is broken up into the following parts

  Topic Registration:	1%
  Presentation Outline:	2%
  Practice Presentation:	1%
  Class Presentation:	3%
  Class Evaluation:	1%

• Library. If you have trouble locating materials, please request help from the Computer Science Library Liaison: Roman Koshykar (email: rgkwml@rit.edu , phone: X2238).

• Outline Format. Your outline must be typewritten, either on a typewriter or a printer. The outline must have a cover page stating the title of the presentation, your name, the course name, and the quarter.

• Journals. The following is a sample list of journals and conference proceedings. Don't restrict your search to these. However, they may provide a good place from which to start your search.

  Computer Architecture News
  Proc. of the Annual IEEE Symposium on COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
  Journal of the ACM
  Proc. of IEEE
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
  IEEE Micro
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  IEEE Computer