EE/CS120B
Winter Quarter, 2003

EE/CS120B Class Presentations

You, along with your partner, will be required to make a 10 minute oral presentation in class about an article related to computer engineering. The following is the list of articles from IEEE Spectrum (or alternate link) that you can choose from.  Two students per article.  There will normally be one presentation per class time.  By Tuesday (1/14), you should have signed up for an article and a time slot.  Please send me e-mail as for which available article AND which time slot you want.  This page will be updated periodically for changing availability. 

The presentations will be graded for your delivery, knowledge, A/V quality, and outside research. If you don't like any of the articles, feel free to choose your own from Embedded System Programming,  IEEE Computers, IEEE Micro, IEEE Design & Test, or IEEE Intelligent Systems.  Please send it to me for approval at least one week before your presentation day.  The article should be at least 6 pages long.

You should cover the relevant and interesting points of the article.  In addition, you are expected to do a little research outside the article and add it to your presentation.  Extra research may include, but is not limited to, searching for extra information on the web, reading another article on the same topic, or presenting a demo relating to the article.  Questions from the audience will be encouraged.  You may want to use Powerpoint to make your slides.  You may either send it to me no later than 8AM on the day of the presentation or put it on a (virus free!!!) CD.  Otherwise, you will be responsible for your own visual aid.  There may be between 10-15 slides per presentation, depending on your style.

You will probably have to be on campus, use a proxy service, or have your own subscription of IEEE journals for the link to work.  Every student has proxy (see http://sg.ucr.edu/proxy/), but if you can't get it to work, just go to a campus machine like the ones in the library.

Available article from IEEE Spectrum (or alternate link)

1. "Synthetic Skin", W. Leventon, Dec 2002, pp 28-33.
2. "Techno Cops", J. Kumagai, Dec 2002, pp 34-39.
3. "Mind Games", S. Cass, Dec 2002, pp 40-44.
4. "IM Means Business", S. Cherry, Nov 2002, pp 28-32.
5. "Gifts for the holidays", W. Jones, Nov 2002, pp 44-49.
6. "The Amazing Vanishing Transistor Act", L. Geppert, Oct 2002, pp28-33.
7. "Reaping the Wilde Wind", R. Mandelbaum, Oct 2002, pp34-39.
8. "A Better Bullot Box", R. Mercuri, Oct 2002, pp46-50.
9. "Helping Computers Help Themselves", D. Pescovitz, Sep 2002, pp 49-53.
10. "Weaving a Web of Ideas", S. Cherry, Sep 2002, pp 65-69.
11. "The Wizardry of Id", D. Kushner, Aug 2002, pp 42-47.
12. "The Sensible Superconductor", S. Das, Jul 2002, pp 34-37.
13. "Making Unbreakable Code", J. Mullins, May 2002, pp 40-45.
14. "Flywheel Batteries Come Around Again", R. Hebner, Apr 2002, pp 46-51.
15. "Sun Kings Cross the Outback", G. Zorpette, Feb 2002, pp 40-46.
16. "Clear Skies Ahead", E. Bretz, Jan 2002, pp78-81.
17. "The Quest for the SPIN Transistor", G. Zorpette, Dec 2001, pp 30-35.
18. "Anatomy of Malice", S. Cass, Nov 2001, pp 56-60.
19. "In Search of Transparent Networks", A. Morris, Oct 2001, pp 47-51.
20. "The Topsy Turvy World of Quantum Computing", J. Mullins, Feb 2001, pp 42-49.