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CS 591 SN Spring Version

Join the CS 591SN seminar to explore new systems and networking topics through practice job talks, conference presentations, and discussions of top papers. Attendees have the option to receive course credit.

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CS 591 SN Spring Version

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  1. CS 591 SNSpring Version New Systems and Networking Seminar Spring 2009 Organizers: Indranil Gupta, Klara Nahrstedt, Nitin Vaidya, Robin Kravets

  2. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar “New”? • Last Fall 08:New and Top Systems + Networking conferences from 2008 • Infocom, NSDI, Sensys, Middleware, ICDCS, OSDI, and more! • Best award papers and/or stand-out papers • Spring Format this Spring 2009 semester: each session devoted to one of: • Practice Runs of Interview Talks by graduating PhD students • Practice Runs of Upcoming conference presentations • Presentations of Top non-UIUC Papers from Top Conferences • Visitors from outside UIUC

  3. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar “Systems and Networking”? • If you don’t know, you may not belong here…

  4. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar “Seminar”? seminar 1887, from Latin seminarium "breeding ground, plant nursery" (also “seminary”). Sense of "meeting for discussion of a subject" first recorded 1944. A place where all opinions, all debates, are fair game. Faculty and students will participate. Goal: to inform, debate, banish or accept new ideas from the systems community.

  5. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar Seminar Structure • Each seminar 1 hour • Practice Job Talks: 55 min + 5 min, but you’ll get questions during the talk itself • Practice Conference Talks: 25 min + 5 min, but you’ll get questions during the talk itself • Other non-UIUC Conference Papers: 25 min + 5 min, but you’ll get questions during the talk itself • Visitor talks usually 1 hour long Timings will be imposed harshly, especially for job talks. • Some sessions will have a “faculty host” who’s in charge of that seminar • For non-UIUC papers, faculty host selects papers, accepts requests from students for presentations, introduces students during seminar • Faculty host will NOT answer questions about paper and will NOT preview your presentation • Feedback form to be filled out by audience members (must for students, optional for faculty members)

  6. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar Credit? • 1 hour • Credit is optional – you can attend the seminar even if you’re not taking it for credit • You can attend the seminar even if you’ve attended in prior semesters • If you’re taking the course for credit, you need to do a presentation and make yourself visible by asking lots of (good) questions

  7. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar If you’re doing a presentation… • It’s completely your responsibility (slides, practice, everything). • Make sure you increase your reputation in the department by doing a good presentation. • Start on time: Make sure you arrive 5 minutes before the seminar starts and set yourself up • Please do not ask me or the faculty host for any clarifications • See “Suggestions on Doing a Good Presentation” on the course website

  8. CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar What Else? • Schedule? See course website: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/cs591sn • Will I be reminded about these talks? Yes, please subscribe to mailing list cs591sn@cs.uiuc.edu

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