Rules for Seminar

• ATTEND
  Over four absences will drop you a letter grade. The seminar will start the first week of the term.
• GIVE PRESENTATIONS
  You are to give two presentations. You should pick an available date in the first half of the term and one in the last half of the term. These need to be approved by the instructor.
• WRITE PAPER
  You need to write an one to two page paper about one of your presentations. This is to be in your words (not copied from the source) and in English not mathematics, tables or lists. The paper is to be turned in before the term is over.

Suggestions for Seminar

• A good place to find topics/papers is IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, and Transaction of the Visualization Society of Japan. These are primarily scientific visualization. There are other sources, such as the book by Stasko [98] or the books and papers on visualization of data mining. I suggest you find a paper you find interesting and run the title by me. I think that you will find that conference papers are a little too small for a presentation. However, if you find something that looks interesting, do run it by me.
• After you have picked a title, please edit the class page with your name and the title. Create an additional page and give a short description of the paper. If the paper is in the library on-line collection, pleae include the URL to the paper and not the softcopy. This way the campus security will still work.
• If the paper is in paper format, please copy the paper and place the copy outside my door (on the hanging clip). And then leave a note in the class page about the availablity of the paper. It helps if you can post the paper about a week before the presentation.