Folks
I have been seeing a few "non-professional" presentations recently,
and since many of you are preparing for qualifier, proposal, and
defense presentations, this is the outline I am expecting from your
future presentations. Expect to spend no more than 3 minutes on each slide,
and have some back up slides (typically 10-15, for Slides 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
11, 12)
Use Powerpoint templates for all presentations.
If you feel you need a few more slides - add them in the area of
slide 9 (your work or in the case of qualifier the subject area)
- not anywhere else.
If you don't follow this outline during your exam, I would suggest
you follow it the "second" time you take it :-).
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OUTLINE OF YOUR TALK
(C) Madisetti, 1997.
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Part 1 - Working the crowd
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Slide 1 - Title, authors, affiliation
(Title should be specific, e.g., ATR: A Data Fusion
Approach using Image Algebra, or Seismic Signal Deconvolution:
A New Application of Homomorphic Processing to Bandpass Signals)
Slide 2 - General problem being solved (with small figure)
(Automatic Target Recognition, Rapid Prototyping etc)
Also hint at why the problem is important and interest the
audience in your presentation.) Relate to cost, time, speed,
economy, military value etc. Don't say your goal is to build
the "best system", if people wanted a comedy, they would've gone to
a club). Tell them why you think they should be interested in
what you have to say, remember they can always doze, or ask tough
questions, or stare malevolently)
Slide 3 - Expected characteristics of any solution (not necessarily yours)
(You may use table of features expected from any solution -
accurate (10{-6} BER), convergence speed (iterations), etc with units.
Be impartial here - say that you are presenting a fair selection
of metrics with which the audience should judge any proposal.)
Slide 4 - What are the new ideas you want to use in your solution
(What are the ideas you plan to use, how original are they,
nice to mention if they have been published)
Slide 5 - Impact of these ideas.
(expected impact on characteristics of Slide 3)
Slide 6 - Related work by others (best work)
(List pictures, flowcharts,tables of numbers representing
best of results, with references to author and date of publication
Slide 7 - Related work (by others - their best work)
Slide 8 - How do your ideas differ from related best work
(Describe with picture, or flowgraph or table how your
ideas differ from others and why you think your ideas will
work.)
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(At this point, pause and ask if there are any questions). Don't
ask people to ask you questions after, say slide 3!)
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Part 2
(The technical approach)
Slide 9 - Progress in terms of implementing your ideas so far - what
are the assumptions, what is the technical rationale, and
how you approached the problem.
(Explain how you planned to implement the ideas, the software
etc.)
Slide 10 - Progress in terms of implementing your ideas so far
(Continuation of Slide 9)
Slide 11 - Example of its application - problem to be solved as example
(A simple example of an application of your implementation
and its evaluation and comparision to work by others on
the same example).
Slide 11 - Example of its applications - results of the application
(Show main results and benefits or disadvantages.)
Slide 12 - Lessons learned so far.
(Describe results learned from more complex examples you
tried the algorithm/implementation on, with summary of
results in table or graph).
(At this point, ask if any one has any short questions)
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Part 3
(Closing arguments)
Slide 13 - Summary of current and expected future improvements
(Explain, list main features and results accomplished and
how you reevaluate your approach and methodology in light
of results.)
Slide 14 - References, papers published, and impact on sponsor applications
(List papers you published, and any software/hardware developed
to date, and expected impact, results of paper reviews, utilization
by others in the industry.)
Slide 15 - Conclusions - add here the expected use this presentation
will be on your audience. Use a fancy figure here, showing
how a full-blown system would work impact the industry!
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All slides to be made in Powerpoint using consistent format to the
RASSP presentations. Use a number of figures - especially in
Slides 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Make your slides packed with information - text on left, tables on
top left, gif figures on the right, and some banner statement on
the bottom. Also, use a descriptive title for each slide - not
some general stuff saying "ATR" etc.
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I am expecting you to follow this outline very closely.
Good luck.
Remember that 3 minutes is the time taken to park you car in
the GCATT garage and reach the GCATT offices. Spend that much
per slide, mentally traversing the path from the garage.
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V. K. Madisetti /\
Associate Professor, / \
Electrical & Computer Engineering, TECH
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA 30332-0250 | |
(404)894-4696, (404)894-4641 (fax) | |
vkm@ee.gatech.edu, http://www.ee.gatech.edu/users/215 ====