1. The December 2 checkpoint is to make sure you have a start on the
paper.  This would include a detailed outline and the related work
section complete.  We'll give instructions down the line.

2. Yes.

3. FFTP paper can be more than 5 pages long too.  It's up to you what
you put into it.  Data is actually good, if you can get it done.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Soto [mailto:ps
oto@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 2:28 AM
To: 6.829@MIT.EDU
Subject: projects and file challenge
Just a few questions about the projects in general and the file
challenge
project:

1) What exactly is expected by the Dec. 2 checkpoint? (I don't quite see

why the checkpoint is so late into the term...2 days away from project
presentations). It says write-up next to checkpoint...is that something
different from the project papers due on the 12th?

2) Is the FFTP project presentation different than the other projects in

that we will only have to run the program for the staff, and not
prepare a
presentation for the whole class? (It would be nice to know how well the

groups that work on this project, perform)

3) If the FFTP final project writeup is only 5 pages long, does that
mean
you expect the paper not to have any empirical data, but to focus on the

theoretical aspects of the solution we come up with?

Thanks,
--Paul

Check out http://bgp.lcs.mit.edu/ and click View from the left frame. We have plenty of BGP database from various vantage points.

Jaeyeon

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Mike Afergan wrote:

  Suggested project #1 speaks of BGP data.  What data do you have exactly?  Thinking of doing something tangentially related to the idea and the data could be useful...

        Thanks,
        -- Mike

I understand that some groups haven't nailed down what they want to work
on for the term project.  Two things to keep in mind about this:

1. It's likely that what you will actually end up doing will evolve a
little from the current proposal you make.  This is natural, so it's
more important to figure out roughly what you want to do and not sweat
the details too much (that's what the rest of the term is for).

2. If you really haven't narrowed things down and need some time, that's
fine with us.  Get the proposals to us by 10/6/03.  But remember -- the
sooner you get it to us, the quicker our feedback will be.

Hari

Hi, the emulab machines run on FreeBSD 4.5

For more infomation take a look at this webpage:
http://www.emulab.net/docwrapper.php3?docname=software.html

- alex

Hello.  My group has decided to do the Fast File Transfer Protocol
project.  Which release of FreeBSD will be running on the
test/evaluation environment?

thanks,
Tim

1. I don't expect all the results to be shown in the talk.  That's what the
paper is for.

2. I DO expect some results in the talk, ideally your most important one (or
two).  Given that there's only a week between the talk and paper, "work in
progress" with no results wouldn't be a good sign.

3. Grade is based on both the talk and the paper.  Criteria is simple --
give a good or great talk!  Pretend it's a conference or workshop and show
your best result(s), in addition to motivation and your approach.

If you don't have concrete results, don't fret.  If the ideas are novel and
interesting, that may be enough.  But if it's stating fairly obvious things
with no actual results, that wouldn't be a good sign.

Hope this helps.
Hari

-----Original Message-----
From: Abdallah Jabbour [mailto:ajabbour@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 9:30 PM
To: hari@csail.mit.edu
Cc: 6.829-tas@MIT.EDU; 'James Psota'; 'Alexey A Radul'
Subject: RE: LAST Call for Project Presentation Sign Ups

Hi Hari,

My partners and I would like to ask the following:

- Is the presentation only supposed to introduce our topic and show the
work in progress? Or should it absolutely contain simulation results? In
other words, is it OK if the results are in the paper but not in the
presentation?

- Is the project grade given to the presentation, the paper, or both? If
the presentation counts, what are the criteria for evaluation?

Thanks,

Abdallah, Alexey, Jim

- Talks are in NE43-516.  Schedule is linked from the 829 web page.

- Plan on a 15-minute talk, with 5 minutes for questions after your talk.
We'll try not to interrupt during your talk, other than to ask quick
clarification questions.

- Some have asked if all of the group members should speak or not.  I'll
leave that to you.  I would expect everyone to want to participate, but
don't want to enforce it.  But, unless there's some good reason (which you
don't have to share with me), I would hope that everyone said something.

- I will have a laptop available in the room.  Put your talk on a web page
or bring a USB drive.  No other media.  We will download/copy your talk to
my laptop and you can present off that.  That way, I'll have a copy of your
slides, which would help if I have questions later.

- My laptop can handle PPT, PDF, PS, visio.  If you have some other format
then contact me before or bring your own laptop.

- If you're planning on a demo then it would be best to bring your own
laptop and hook it up.

- I've placed my slides from class today at
http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/6.829/badtalk-829.ppt

Hari