CS349D: Project Information

Proposal

Your project proposal should be 2-3 pages long (single column, minimum 10pt font size). The proposal should include the following information:

• The team members (names and Stanford email address)
• The problem you want to address including some background information on the topic (e.g., a few key references)
• The specific goals you want to achieve (expected results)
• The methodology and required resources
• A brief timeline for the rest of the quarter

Upload a single proposal per team to Gradescope. The deadline is April 17th.

Midterm Review

In preparation of your meeting with the instructors to review progress and issues with your project, please prepare and submit a slide presentation of no more than 3 slides (Google Slides, PPT, or PDF) that includes the following information:

• The team members (names and Stanford email address)
• A review of the problem you are addressing (be specific now)
• Your technical approach
• Your methodology
• Preliminary results: measurements of the problem, feasibility experiments, lessons from using the tools you will rely on, etc.
• Roadmap for the rest of the quarter
• Obstacles, dependencies, concerns, and unresolved issues. Where possible, list backup plan

Upload a single presentation per team to Gradescope. The deadline is May 15th.

Final Presentations

Please use this sheet to signup for a slot for the CS349D presentations. Your presentation slot is 15min but we strongly suggest you prepare for a 10-12min presentation and leave time for questions. We will strictly enforce time, so please practice!
We suggest the following outline for your talk:

• The problem
• The idea
• Design and implementation (1-2 slides)
• What works/status
• A key measurement/experiment

Feel free to deviate from this outline, but make sure you stick to the main points (and do not try to cover all your results). You can choose to have a single team member give the talk or have multiple members alternate. Please upload your slides to Gradescope. Note: the presentation is not the final deliverable of your project. It is a way to get feedback on important issues you should address in your report. Thus, we suggest not shying away from the Monday slot!

Final Reports

Upload a 5-6 page project report by June 12th at 6:30PM PT to Gradescope. We strongly encourage earlier submissions if possible, especially if you are graduating! We recommend using the ACM SIGPLAN template, but any sane single-spaced, two-column layout will be accepted. Though you can adjust as needed, we recommend the following report structure:

• Introduction -- 1 page
• Motivation/Background/Related Work -- 1 page
• Design/Implementation -- 1.5-2 pages
• Evaluation -- 1-1.5 pages
• Discussion/Limitations/Next Steps: 0.5 page

Adapted from a template by Andreas Viklund.