Thursday, August 26, 2004:

• Teams are required to email their team members to the instructor/TA by September 7th.

Thursday, September 23, 2004:

• Teams are required to email their top three team project preferences to both the instructor and the TA by September September 28th.
• Each student is required to email their top three research papers preferences to both the instructor and the TA by September September 28th.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004:

• Note that both project assignments and research paper topics are posted in the appropriate pages.
• For those of you who have alreay submitted request for research topic, but have not seen your name in the page, this means that all top three of your choices were chosen by other students. In this case, please let me know from which other available topics you would like to choose from ASAP. Once again, please make the order in which you prefer among these available topics. If I do not hear from those students by the next class period, I will assign the topics. The same rule applies to those who have not made any selection as of yet.

Thursday, October 7, 2004:

• The project presentations will be given next week. Teams 1-3 will be presenting on Tuesday, October 12th and the rest of the teams will be presenting on Thursday, October 14th.
• All the presentations are expected to be prepared in power point. The presentations should be 20 minutes with 5 minutes Q & A session. The number of presentation slides are upto the presenter. A hard copy of the presentation (with handout format) should be handed in to the instructor prior to the presentation. The presentation should summarize the main points of the deliverables turned in. The presentation should conclude with a slide containing the difficulties and lessons learned for the current phase.

Thursday, October 14, 2004:

• You can present research paper(s) depending on your findings. All the presentations are expected to be prepared in power point. The presentations should be 20 minutes including 5 minutes Q & A session. The number of presentation slides are upto the presenter. A hard copy of the presentation (with handout format) and the paper should be handed in to the instructor prior to the presentation. I also would like to see a slide or two talking about your opinion about the paper-- basically, your critical review. You can mention the advantages and disadvantages of the ideas/methodologies presented according to your understanding.
• The schedule page has been updated to show the research paper presentation schedule.
• All the projects have been linked in the class project page.