Final Project Deliverables

Pre-Proposal

Students should schedule a meeting with the instructors in the 3rd/4th week of class to discuss project ideas.

Proposal

The proposal should be 2 pages long, following the USENIX format: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/author-resources/paper-templates. Each proposal should include 3 sections:

• Introduction: describe the problem you are tackling, the context for the problem, and why you think it's an important problem. You should also describe relevant prior work in a subsection.
• Technical approach: describe your approach to solving this problem, and why your approach is likely to be successful. Put preliminary work here if you have any.
• Evaluation plan: describe how you plan to evaluate your approach, with explicit metrics, as well as performance and benchmarks to run.

Due date: TBD, to be submitted via email to the instructors.

Checkpoint

Schedule a 30 minute meeting with the instructors to discuss the project's progress

Due date: TBD

Final presentation

Present a poster during class poster session

Due date: TBD

Final report

Final report should follow the same USENIX format as the proposal. It should be 6 pages long and should include introduction, design, evaluation, and related work.

Due date: TBD