CS122A
Fall Quarter, 2003

CS122A Class Presentations

You 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.  One student per article.  There will normally be two presentations per class time.  By Tuesday (9/30), 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.  

While your own presentation will be graded, the material covered in the presentation may show up only as extra credit questions on quizzes and exams.  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 7AM on the day of the presentation or burn it on a CD and hope for the best.  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. "The Wireless Last Mile", S. Cherry, Sep 2003, pp18-22.
2. "Ultra-Wideband: Multimedia Unplugged", S. Stroh, Sep 2003, pp 23-27.
3. "Watching the Nanotube", G. Amaratunga, Sep 2003, pp 28-32.
4. "A Little Light Magic", F. Schellenberg, Sep 2003, pp 34-39. (Brian Lee)
5. "Smart Buildings", D. Snoonian, Aug 2003, pp 18-23.
6. "Irradiation Nation", H. Goldstein, Aug 2003, pp 24-29.
7. "Steady As She Blows", P. Fairley, Aug 2003, pp 35-39.
8. "Saving Private E-mail", S. Vaughan-Nichols, Aug 2003, pp 40-44.
9. "They Know Where You Are", J. Warrior, et.al., Jul 2003, pp 20-25.
10. "Putting Passives In Their Place", R. Ulrich, et.al., Jul 2003, pp 26-30.
11. "Broadband A Go-Go", S. Cherry, Jun 2003, pp 20-25.
12. "Mighty Mites", M. Riezenman, Jun 2003, pp 30-33.
13. "Bioethics & The Brain", K. Foster, et.al., Jun 2003, pp 34-39.
14. "The Copyright Wars, part 1", T. Perry, May 2003, pp 20-27.
15. "The Copyright Wars, part 2", T. Perry, May 2003, pp 28-35.
16. "Mars, Dead or Alive?", B. DiGregorio, May 2003, pp 36-41.
17. "Listening In", S. Cass, Apr 2003, pp 32-37.
18. "Getting The Message", P. Wallich, Apr 2003, pp 38-41.
19. "Digital Audio's Final Frontier", B. Putzerys, Mar 2003, pp 34-41.
20. "The New Indelible Memories", L. Geppert, Mar 2003, pp 48-54.
21. "Fast Films", A. Brown, Feb 2003, pp 36-40.
22. "Opening Up Energy Trading", K. Maize, Jan 2003, pp 54-58.
23. "Emission Permission", M. Ingebretsen, et.al., Jan 2003, pp 59-62.
24. "Running Off The Rails", T. Eastham, Jan 2003, pp 66-69.
25. "A Sea Change for Semiconductors", L. Geppert, Jan 2003, pp76-82.
26. "The Amazing Vanishing Transistor Act", L. Geppert, Oct 2002, pp28-33.
27. "A Better Bullot Box", R. Mercuri, Oct 2002, pp46-50.
28. "Helping Computers Help Themselves", D. Pescovitz, Sep 2002, pp 49-53.
29. "Weaving a Web of Ideas", S. Cherry, Sep 2002, pp 65-69.
30. "Making Unbreakable Code", J. Mullins, May 2002, pp 40-45.