CS 848 (Winter 2010) Paper Summary Information

Each student will be assigned several papers to review over the course of the term. Each review should be about 1/2 page (1-2 paragraphs) in length, and should present key ideas from the paper. Each review should be self-contained, i.e., it should be possible to understand the summary without having read the full paper. Your target audience is a (hypothetical) CS848 student who has not read the paper. In other words, assume your reader already has some famiarity with the topics covered in this course, but not with the material in the paper you are summarizing.

Since you are limited to half a page, you cannot possibly include everything from the paper in your summary. A major part of your task is to decide what to present in your summary and what to leave out. Include what you feel are the most important ideas in the paper, and include only as much as you can present clearly in the space allotted to you. Do not plagiarize - write in your own words. Any direct quotations should be brief and properly identified and attributed.

Your summary should be submitted as a PDF file, in single-column format. Use at least a 10 point font. Please use the following format for your summaries:

SUMMARY:
Full bibliographic information for the paper being summarized

Date:
 
Your 1-2 pargraph summary


Summarized by: your name

Here is an example of a paper summary. This example is based on the paper [lago04], which will be presented in class on January 11th.

Summaries are due at the start of the class in which the paper being summarized is discussed. Please print your summary and bring it with you to class.