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Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Xiaowei Yang. Lecture 1: Course Introduction. Roadmap. Why should you take the course? Who should take this course? Course organization Course work Grading policy Break Introduce yourself Tell me more about your expectations How to read papers The question-answer approach

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Lecture 1: Course Introduction

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  1. Xiaowei Yang Lecture 1: Course Introduction

  2. Roadmap • Why should you take the course? • Who should take this course? • Course organization • Course work • Grading policy • Break • Introduce yourself • Tell me more about your expectations • How to read papers • The question-answer approach • The three pass approach

  3. Why should you take this class? • Learning new technology trends • Cloud computing, datacenter networks, social networks, network security, etc. • Helping you find an exciting research project • Discussing other cool ideas with your fellow students and the instructor

  4. Who should take this class? • A short answer • Anyone who’s interested in the stuff • But seriously • Have time to read the assigned readings before coming to class • Have time for a course project

  5. Course organization • Meet twice a week • Assigned readings for each class • Lecture or Class presentation • Students may sign up for them • Discussion • The most important/fun part

  6. Course work • Reading assignments • Midterm • A course project • Individual, group of 2~3 • I will provide suggestions • E.g., a cloud application

  7. Grading Policy • Class participation and presentation: 15% • Midterm: 15% • Project: 70%

  8. Break • Introduce yourself • Your expectations

  9. How to read Research papers

  10. Reading papers effectively is challenging • Written in a condensed style • Assuming much prior knowledge • Written for a different purpose than being course materials • You have limited time

  11. Learning how to read papers effectively is important • Life-time long skill of self-learning • New knowledge is likely to show up in research papers

  12. How to read paper effectively • Know what you should get out of the papers • Know where to find them

  13. Structure of a paper • Introduction • Motivation • Outline the solution • Body • Solutions in detail • Evaluation to show the solutions are valid • Conclusion • Recap • Emphasize primary contributions

  14. Questions to answer • What are the motivations for this work? • People problem: broader impact on society • Saved time, increased safety • Technical problem • Why is the people problem difficult? • Why are previous solutions inadequate? •  Research problem: what the paper addresses

  15. Questions to answer • What is the proposed solution? • A hypothesis • Why is it believed to solve the problem • Why is it better than previous solutions • Design and implementation

  16. Questions to answer • What’s the work’s evaluation to the proposed solution • What argument, implementation, and/or experiment shows the solution’s better? • What benefits/problems are identified?

  17. Questions to answer • What is your analysis of the identified problem, solution, and evaluation? • Is it a good idea? Flaws? Controversial? Practical? • What are the contributions? • Insights on the research question, ideas, software, experimental techniques, … • What are the future directions? • What questions are you left with?

  18. Questions to answer • What’s your take-away message? • Try to sum up the paper in one sentence from your own perspective

  19. Answers • Write your own abstract • Or annotate the paper

  20. Let’s answer those questions for the 2nd paper • What are the motivations for this work? • What is the proposed solution? • What’s the work’s evaluation to the proposed solution • What is your analysis of the identified problem, solution, and evaluation? • What are the contributions? • What are the future directions? • What questions are you left with? • What’s your take-away message?

  21. Summary • Course introduction • How to read papers • Next lecture • Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

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