Grading plan:

• If you work hard in this seminar (see responsibilities below),
  you will get a good grade.
• If you don’t work hard, you will get a lousy grade.
• If you need more details than that, this seminar is probably not for you.

Your responsibilities:

• Read the papers carefully.
  I would expect several hours per paper, at the least.
   
• Participate fully in class discussions.  Attendance is mandatory.
  Arrive with two lists:
   
• Technical points you did not understand.
   
• Questions that the paper suggests to you.
  These should be questions that you think:
1. The research community would find interesting, and
2. It might be practical to answer.
    
• Present a portion of a paper, for each project.
  Work incredibly hard at this, since your success here determines the success of the seminar.
   
• Work appropriately with your group in carrying out the project.
  (Design experiments, write code, run experiments, evaluate results, etc.)
   
• Present results.
  (Results will be presented both orally and in writing.
  You will do one for one project and the other for the other project.)