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Motivation : Why is it Necessary (to present your work)? The greatest ideas are worthless if you keep them to yourself. CSCI 8220: Giving Technical Presentations (and how to read) ! It is good for you! ! Helps you to communicate better A Pep Talk Based on Simon Peyton ’ s Jones Article ! Helps you understand better and Presentation (see reading list) ! Helps you organize information & your thoughts (if needed). ! Helps you convey important ideas to others! 1 2 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Pep Talk: Do it! Do It The Process (and outline) ! Do it right: Invest Time A Three Step Simple Program! ! The Secret: It is a learned skill – no magic! ! The Key to Success: Practice, practice, practice! ! Step 1: Get the information ! Step 2. Create the Presentation ! Step 3. Present the ‘ Slides ’ Be Open Minded Do experiment 3 4 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Step 1: Gather Information More Questions to Ask ! Download Paper ! How does the paper relate to the current state of the art? ! Ask you Self Questions? ! Is it relevant? Any key ideas that are timeless? » Why am I doing this? ! Are you inspired (can you, should you)? » What is the paper ! Does it generate new ideas? Does it inspire about? follow-up research? » What is the main idea of the paper? ! Was it convincing – what are the results? » What is the solution? 5 6 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA

Step 1: Gather Information The Second Pass: Actively Read ! Skim the paper – ! Make a second pass! Get really into the paper. » Read the abstract » Read the bold print » Highlight important points » Skim the introduction » Skim the conclusion » Take notes (in margins) » Read the middle – Questions – Examples – Definitions – Key Points 7 8 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA After Reading Example Summary ! Collect your thoughts ! Key idea, what is the author trying to do? ! Write a brief summary of key points ! What is the approach ! Be critical and how is it original? » Assumptions ! Reflection: limitations » Methods and assumptions » Reasoning ! What is results, impact » Results of paper » Convincing? » Relevance? ! Constructive comments to presenter. ! Write a more extensive summary! 9 10 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Step 2: Create the Presentation What style to Use (or Not)? ! How do I get started? ! Use color to capture the attention of the audience, but not too much? ! You will need to user Power point slides or something similar! ! Use color to capture the attention of the audience, but not too much? ! Important – don ’ t copy paste from papers » Make it your own: “ Own it. ” » Easier to convey the information 11 12 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA

What are the slides for? Step 2: Create the Presentation ! Organizes your thought, prompts you (add ! Assess your audience, Who are they? secret prompts, secret language)? » What do they know, what do they need to know? ! Convey key points to your audience. Give – They read the paper? your audience a feel about the paper and the ! They read all the papers in advance? general idea? – They already took OS the year before ! Engage the audience, provoke them, – Are fresh / alert and ready to learn? challenge them? ! Notes to use after talk. 13 14 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA The Truth: The Real Audience Anatomy of a Talk ! They are you - or YOU before you read the All good things come in three paper. 1. Motivate (20%) ! They may be tired – alert them! 2. Key Idea (80%, repeat repeat) 3. There is no 3. 15 16 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Motivation The Key Idea You must identify a key idea. “ What I did this ! summer ” is No Good. ! 2 minutes to engage before ! . Hierarchical – » Why should I tune it? ! » What is the problem? » Key ideas of talk » Why is it interesting? » Key idea of each slide – Put yourself in their shoes! Be specific. Don ’ t leave your audience to figure ! it out for themselves. Be absolutely specific. Say “ If you remember ! nothing else, remember this. ” Organize your talk around this specific goal. ! Ruthlessly prune material that is irrelevant to this goal. 17 18 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA

Use Example(s) and Analogies The Outline ! Background ! The SASSY system Examples are your main weapon ! Overview of epimorphism ! PI-reducibility is equal to MP To motivate the key ideas ! Benchmarks and Results ! To convey the basic intuition ! Related Work ! To illustrate The Idea in action ! Conclusion and Future Work ! To show extreme cases ! But remember: To highlight shortcomings ! You are not presenting a mystery novel – tell the audience the most interesting stuff first (the key idea)! Why is this paper exciting! 19 20 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Need an Outline – Why? Technical Detail ! Outline – conveys near zero information before your motivation » Put ‘ maybe ’ an outline for orientation 21 22 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Omit Technical Detail Present Plots/Data ! Present specific aspects only; refer to the ! Say what it is and what it shows (don ’ t paper for the details (if it is too complicated) assume audience can tell what is displayed) » Key aspects : Do Present » Tell them the metric (and why it is important to illustrate) and Variables (and why are these the ! By all means have backup slides to use in important variables) response to questions » AND What is held constant? (i.e., the assumptions) ! Know you audience! ! Highlight important characteristics – (bumps, ! Onion Approach work well: trends) » gently peel the layers of information layers, layers of » Make sure you understand the data! interpretation, layers of meaning. Asking "Why?" and "What do you mean?" and "What else?" persistently and deeper as you go. 23 24 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA

Example: Performance Do not apologize! ! “ I didn ’ t have time to prepare this talk properly ” ! “ My computer broke down, so I don ’ t have the results I expected ” ! “ I don ’ t have time to tell you about this ” ! “ I don ’ t feel qualified to address this audience ” ! 0 agent is time stepped approach 25 26 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Presenting your talk! Be your self! We are friendly ! Go over slides the day of your talk (after ! Have fun! practice)! ! Be enthusiastic! ! Know the general outline in your head, visualize the order – and what you what to convey – » Look at the slides! 27 28 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Enthusiasm The Jelly Fish Effect! ! If you do not seem excited by your ! Symptoms presentation, why should the audience be? » Inability to breath ! It wakes ‘ em up » Can ’ t stand! » Brain is malfunctioning ! Enthusiasm makes people dramatically more receptive ! It gets you loosened up, breathing, moving around 29 30 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA

Treatment Being seen, being heard ! Point at the screen, the projector, be animated ! Make eye contact ! You are not Alone! » Speak to someone you know » Everyone gets nervous! » Speak to everyone. ! Breath – that is it! » Speak to someone at the back of the room ! Connect with the audience – try to listen to them and their questions. 31 32 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Presenting your slides Plan your talk and timing A very annoying technique Absolutely without fail, is to reveal finish on time your points ! Audiences get restive and essentially stop one listening when your time is up. Continuing is by one very counter productive ! Simply truncate and conclude by one, unless ! ! Do not say “ would you like me to go there is a punch line on? ” (it ’ s hard to say “ no thanks ” ) 33 34 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA Follow the Rule! There is hope! The general standard is so low that you don ’ t ! What Rule? have to be outstanding to stand out » Only three (1) Motivate – (2) and convey the key ideas and (3) there is no three ! You will attend 50 x as many talks as you » Repeat. give. Watch other people ’ s talks intelligently, and pick up ideas (appreciate) for what to do and what to avoid (learn, everyone makes mistakes). 35 36 Maria Hybinette, UGA Maria Hybinette, UGA