paper critique & summarization : How to give a good research talk

Title : How to give a good research talk
Author: Simon L Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury

Summarization:

This paper propose some notices that may help the paper presentation.

1. About the material, the most important is, who are your audience?
Although for the same topic, you should have different material depend on what your audience would like to listen.

2. Ddopt a non-uniform approach to your talk! Pick some really important to your audience to talk, don't waste too much time on the section which is boring.

3. Put only 6~7 things in a slide, and maybe some images or diagrams are better then only the text. "Present" your slides, not "read" the text in your slides.

4. Don't prepare the slides early. (In fact, I disagree this point, I think that spend more time on preparing slides is OK for me to have more chance to make the slides better.)

5. Attract the eyes of audience in short minute and don't over-run.


Citique:

This paper propose some simple tips for paper presentation, some is useful for me, I always spent some time on the non-important parts in my presentation. But maybe because of my english is poor, I feel the way this paper written is not so smooth for me, some sentances take my more time to figure out what it wants to present.

paper critique & summarization : How to read a paper

Title: How to Read a Paper
Author: S. Keshav
Published: ACM SIGCOMM 2007

summarization:

Three passes to read a paper:

First Pass: Scan the title, abstract, introduction, conclusion,
reference and the headings for each sections.
And find what type this paper is, what assumptions it has,
what contributions it claims.

Second Pass: Read the figures, diagrams, and illustrations carefully to get the key points.
Read the reference paper first if you need the background knowledge.

Third Pass: Virtually re-implement the paper.
Challenge every assumptions and consider how to solve the problem yourself.
Find the advantage and disadvantage of this paper.

For literature survay, the three passes mathod is also useful,
the first pass should be read the "recent" few papers about the field;
second pass is finding the good researcher in this area and knowing what he do the last years;
and final pass we could look around the websit of top conferences of this field to get more key papers.