ENEE 698B - Computer Engineering Seminar

Fall 2000

Topic Offerings

Date	Topic	Students (1 or 2)	Room
Sept 19	Architectures for media processing	Himanshu Khurana Radostina Koleva	EGR 1108
Sept 26	NO CLASS		"
Oct 3	Instruction scheduling via list scheduling	Steve Haga Qingmin Shi	"
Oct 10	Speculative execution	Mohamed Zahran	"
Oct 17	Architectural or compiler-level low-power techniques	Neil Bambha Ming-Yung Ko	"
Oct 24	Compiler optimizations for object-oriented languages	Tom Carley, Aneesh Aggarwal	"
Oct 31	Software synthesis for embedded systems	Jesus Molina Kapil Dakhane	"
Nov 7	NO CLASS		"
Nov 14	NO CLASS
Nov 21	Performance measurement and profiling/ Value prediction	Vida Kianzad Abdel-Hameed Badawy
Nov 28	Compiler techniques for multimedia codes on general-purpose architectures	Zhang Yi Kun Luo	"
Dec 5	- CLASS CANCELLED - Architectural techniques for prefetching	Jia-Shiang Jou	"
Dec 12	- CLASS CANCELLED - Branch prediction		"

Changes to the above schedule will be accepted only if a student requests changing from a topic/week with one or two students scheduled, to a different week where only one student is currently scheduled.

Each topic is covered by one, two or three students. Looking at the enrollment, I expect most topics will be covered by two students. You cannot sign up for a topic for which two students are currently signed up unless there are no topics with less than two students signed up.

With one student, the student selects one main paper and a second paper. He presents a 20 minute talk on the subject, with a 5 minute overview, and 15 minute technical content.

With two students, the seminar can be organized in one of the following manners:

Option 1, one presentation: The two students combine to select one main paper, and at least two other papers. One student presents a maximum 10-minute overview plus 10 minutes technical details. The second student presents 20 minutes in additional technical details. The class must at least read the main paper. There will be about 10 minutes at end of class for questions and answers.
Option 2, two presentations. Each student selects one main paper and another paper; the papers do not have to be related. The class is split with two 20-minute presentations, of which the first 5 minutes is overview, next 15 minutes technical. The class must at least read one of the main papers. There will be about 10 minutes at end of class for questions and answers.

With three students, the seminar can be organized in one of the following manners:

Option 1, one presentation: The three students combine to select one main paper, and at least two technical papers. One student presents a maximum 10-minute overview plus 5 minutes in technical details. Each of the other two students presents an additional 15 minutes of technical details. The class must at least read the main paper. There will be about 5 minutes at end of class for questions and answers.
Option 2, two presentations: One student selects a main paper and another paper. The other two students select one main paper and atleast two other papers. The first students presents for 15 minutes; a 5-minute introduction and 10 minute technical details. The other two students present for 30 minutes, 15 minutes each, with a 5 to 10 minute introduction. There will be about 5 minutes at end of class for questions and answers.

Policy on overview papers: While the main paper selected should not be an overview paper, one of the other papers is encouraged to be an overview paper, if you can find one.

Important: You must keep track of the time of your presentation. Your grade will be deducted significantly for a presentation that is too long (more than 2 minute too long), or too short (more than 2 minute short). Students should practise the presentation ahead of time to ensure that they stay on this strict time budget. The penalty can be as much as 10 percent of your presentation grade per minute that your presentation is too short or too long.