CS122B
  Winter Quarter, 2007

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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 (1/8), 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 Insomniacs, Dec 2006, Spectrum online.
2. Bits on the Big Screen, Dec 2006, Spectrum online.
3. Goodbye, CRT, Nov 2006 Pages 38-43.
4. Doc at a Distance, Oct 2006 Pages 34-39.
5. Nine Cautionary Tales, Sep 2006 Pages 36-45.
6. Display of a Different Stripe, Aug 2006 Pages 40-44.
7. Zap, Aug 2006 Pages 20-26.
8. Expressway to Your Skull, Aug 2006 Pages 34-39.
9. A Touch of Money [biometric authentication systems], Jul 2006 Pages 22-27.
10. Gone Swimmin’ [seagoing robots], Jun 2006 Pages 38-43.
11. Moore’s Law Meets Its Match [system-on-package], Jun 2006 Pages 44-49.
12. Brain Power – Borrowing From Biology Makes For Low Power Computing [bionic ear], May 2006 Pages 24-29.
13. Telephony’s next act, Apr 2006 Pages 28-32
14. Smart Sensors, Apr 2006 Pages 40-53.
15. Psychiatry’s Shocking New Tools [brain stimulation techniques], Mar 2006 Pages 24-31
16. Unsafe At Any Airspeed? Mar 2006 Pages 44-49
17. The Transistor Laser, Feb 2006 Pages 50-55
18. The Silicon Solution, Oct 2005, pages 38-43.
19. The Exterminators, Sep 2005, pages 36-41.
20. This Looks Like A Job For Superatoms, Aug 2005, pages 42-47.

	Date	Topic	Presentor
Week 0	(R) 1/4	No Presentation
Week  1	(T) 1/9	No Presentation
	(R) 1/11	No Presentation
Week  2	(T) 1/16	Moore’s Law Meets Its Match	Bashir Ziady
	(R) 1/18	Smart Sensors	Aaron Cloyd
Week  3	(T) 1/23	Telephony’s next act	Todd Macedo
	(R) 1/25	Goodbye, CRT	Joanne Lee
Week  4	(T) 1/30	No Presentation
	(R) 2/1	No Presentation
Week  5	(T) 2/6	No Presentation
	(R) 2/8	No Presentation
Week  6	(T) 2/13	The Transistor Laser	Kyle Chen
	(R) 2/15	The Silicon Solution	Caleb Leak
Week  7	(T) 2/20	No Presentation
	(R) 2/22	No Presentation
Week  8	(T) 2/27	Nine Cautionary Tales	Ian Coolidge
	(R) 3/1	Expressway to Your Skull	Daniel Orkin
Week  9	(T) 3/6	Gone Swimmin’	Thomas Helander
	(R) 3/8	A Touch of Money	Alexander Vu
Week  10	(T) 3/13	No Presentation
	(R) 3/15	No Presentation