Presentations


1. Guidelines

 Each student must make TWO presentations in the class. Each student's presentations should be in two different areas among the four general areas around which the course is organized. A presentation describes the key issues contained in the readings for topic as given in the course calender. A presentation should be 30-40 minutes in length. The slides for the presentation should be given to the course instructor no later than the day of the presentation in class.

The schedule of areas and topics for presenation is given in the table below. Student should inform the instructor via email of their preferred choices for presentation topics. The instructor will confirm whether the topics have been assigned to the requesting student. Presentation topics will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Students should have a confirmed (by the instructor) pair of presentation topics by no later than Friday, September 4.

2. Schedule

General Area Date Topic Student Presenter(s)
Interaction   September 8   SEDA   
  September 8    TAME    Nabil S. Al Ramli
  September 8   CSP    Ali Saoud
  September 15   Chords in C#    David Katz
  September 15    Pi Calculus    
  September 22   Transactional Memory (1)    Mariano Diaz
  September 29   Transactional Memory (2)   (2 students)
   David Katz
   Ali Saoud
  October 6   Distributed Transactions    Mahmoud ElGammal
Security   October 13   Protection and Security    Greg Bilodeau
  October 13   Cryptographic Security    Hamid Al-Hamadi
  October 20   Authentication    Cristian Solano
  October 20   Authorization    John Brewer
  November 3   Kerberos    Ahmad Ibrahim
Fault-Tolerance   November 3   Event Ordering    Greg Bilodeau
  November 10   Chekpoint-Recovery   (2 students)
   Mahmoud ElGammal
   Nabil S. Al Ramli
  November 10   Uncoordinated Checkpointing  Cristian Solano
  November 17   Commit Algorithms    Hamid Al-Hamadi
Virtualization   November 17   Virtualization (1)    Mariano Diz
  December 1   Virtualization - XEN    John Brewer
  December 1   Virtualization - VMWare    Ahmad Ibrahim


3. Thoughts on giving a good technical presentation: