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

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!
If you cannot come to classroom, the teacher beforehand with reasons

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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