1. writeup: there, you would describe the novelties of your approach and your discoveries/insights/experiments
2. software: packaging, documentation, and portability. The goal is to provide enough material, so that other people can use it and continue your work.
3. poster presentation.
   

A. Poster

• When:  2:00-5:00pm , Friday 5/4 , in WeH4623. (Notice the slight change in timing)
• What: The poster of each group will consist of  nine pages (e.g., use power-point/openoffice to create those 9 pages)
  
• How: we will provide scotch tape, to post your pages on the wall.
  
• Demo: it is optional but  encouraged. If you do give a demo, please bring your own laptop (and everything else necessary: ethernet cable, power adaptors, etc)
  

B. Grading Scheme

• Writeup
• • [2%] Introduction - Motivation
  • [3%] Problem definition
    
  • [5%] Survey
  • Proposed method
  • • [10%] Intuition - why should it be better than the state of the art?
    • [35%] Description of its algorithms
  • Experiments
  • • [5%] Description of your testbed; list of questions your experiments are designed to answer
    • [25%] Details of the experiments; observations (as many as you can!)
  • [5%] Conclusions
• Software (testing, packaging and documentation) [5%]
• Poster presentation [5%]
  

C. Specifications for packaging of software:

1. after un-tar-ing, the command 'make' should compile your system, install it if necessary and run a small demo on a sample input file (included in your package)
2. it should have a README file, corresponding to the `user's manual': This file should describe the package in a few paragraphs, as well as how to install it and how to use it.
3. it should have a directory DOC, with your writeup, and your foils (in your favorite form: latex, pdf, powerpoint, ms-word)
   
4. `make paper.ps'  or 'make paper.pdf' should create the corresponding version of your writeup (skip this step, if you use ms-word)
   
5. `make clean' should eliminate all the derived files (*.o, *.aux, etc)
6. `make all.tar' (or 'make all.zip') should create a  tar/zip-file,  ready for distribution.
   
7. please make sure that your package includes only the absolutely necessary set of files!

D. What to hand in, for the final project report

1. bring a hard copy of the writeup in class,
2. also bring a (hard copy) of the graded phase-2 report and graded phase-1 report and
3. e-mail  the instructor your tar/zip-file before class.  If the file is too large for e-mailing, contact the instructor.