CS122B
  Winter Quarter, 2005

CS122B 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 one presentations per class time.  By Tuesday (1/11), 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. Ready to ware Marculescu, D.; Marculescu, R.; Park, S.; Jayaraman, S. Oct 2003, Page(s): 28-32.
2. Germs That Build Circuits Fairley, P. Nov 2003, Page(s): 36-41.
3. Go reconfigure [programmable logic in handheld devices] Tredennick, N.; Shimamoto, B. Dec 2003, Page(s): 36-40.
4. Machine chameleon [handheld devices] Verkest, D. Dec 2003, Page(s): 41- 46.
5. Neural engineering's image problem Cavuoto, J. Apr 2004, Page(s): 32- 37.
6. In the eye of the beholder [displays] Lewis, J.R. May 2004, Page(s): 24- 28.
7. Chip making's wet new world Geppert, L. May 2004, Page(s): 29- 33.
8. Turning heads Bar-Cohen, Y. Jun 2004, Page(s): 28- 33.
9. Sensors and sensibility Kumagai, J.; Cherry, S. Jul 2004, Page(s): 22- 26, 28.
10. Supertubes [carbon nanotubes] Avouris, P. Aug 2004, Page(s): 40- 45.
11. Why we fall apart: engineering's reliability theory explains human aging Gavrilov, L.; Gavrilova, N. Sep 2004, Page(s): 31- 35.
12. Daintiest dynamos [nuclear microbatteries] Lal, A.; Blanchard, J. Sep 2004, Page(s): 36- 41.
13. Crashproof codes [flight software] Hess, R.K.; Bass, D.I.; Baca, J.B. Sep 2004, Page(s): 48- 53.
14. Chip shots Webb, C.E. Oct 2004, Page(s): 48- 53.
15. Electrical engineering's identity crisis - when does a vast and vital profession become unrecognizably diffuse? Wallich, P. Nov 2004, Page(s): 66- 73.
16. Managing Care Through The Air Ross, P.E. Dec 2004, Page(s): 26- 31.
17. Through A Lens Sharply Hendriks, B.; Kuiper, S. Dec 2004, Page(s): 32- 36.