CAP6135: Malware and Software Vulnerability Analysis Paper Presentation and Summary Cliff Zou Spring 2010

2 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!

3 Presentation Format  First page:  Show the paper title, authors, affiliations, published conferences  Presenter name  Give acknowledgement if you reuse any content from other places (even from the authors’ slides)  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?

4 Paper Summary  For online video streaming students only  Submit paper summary in every two week (by Tuesday)  Submit summary through webcourse  Summarize two papers presented in the previous two weeks  You can pick these two papers you want to summarize  Each paper’s summary needs to be two or more pages  Single column, single spaced, 12 point fonts

5 Summary Format  Summary:  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  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?