CAP6135: Malware and Software Vulnerability Analysis Paper Presentation and Summary Cliff Zou Spring 2012

Paper Presentation For face-to-face session students only Each class will have two students present two papers Each presentation lasts around 30 minutes The teacher will give a summary at the end of lecture if we still have time Student in-class participation is counted Ask questions, answer questions, give comments… The teacher will count it! If you cannot come to classroom, email the teacher beforehand with reasons

Presentation Format First page: Show the paper title, authors, affiliations, published conference/journal name Presenter name Give acknowledgement if you reuse any content from other places besides the paper (even from the authors’ slides) Three pages at the end of presentation: Contribution: one page The major contribution(s) of this paper Weakness: one page What weaknesses you can think of this paper? Improvement: one page How do you think to improve/extend the research in the paper?

Paper Summary For online video streaming students only Submit paper summary twice Submit summary through webcourse About once in two and a half week I will put an announcement on webcourse one week before the due date So pay attention to announcement! Check webcourse at least twice per week! Summarize two papers presented in the previous weeks You can pick any two papers you want to summarize Each paper’s summary needs to be at least two pages Single column, single spaced, 12 point fonts

Summary Format Summary: Weakness: Your thoughts: Summarize what this paper is about? Central ideas/contributions Briefly describe how the authors show/verify their claims Do not try to copy paper’s abstract or conclusion Should be more technical and detailed than paper’s abstract You can treat it as ‘extended abstract’ Use your own words Weakness: Point out what the possible weaknesses exist in the paper Use your own words, do not copy from the paper Your thoughts: Good? Bad? Interested? Boring? Why do you think the paper is good or bad? How to improve? Do you have a new idea on better work?

Grading Bias Issue Online session students and face-to-face session students may get different grade for this section, how to be fair? I will make sure the average score for both sessions’ students in this portion is equal to each other For example, if the average score of online students in this portion is 90, the average score of face-to-face students in this portion is 80, then: All online students’ score in this portion will be multiplied with 8/9