CE/CS 200Fall 1996

You are asked to prepare a LaTeX document three or four pages long that contains the following:

• The title, author, and affiliation of the author of a paper.
• A two-paragraph abstract of a computer science or computer engineering paper, which should provide a summary of the paper. The abstract should be self-contained, in the sense that the reader should not have to refer to the paper to understand the abstract. The abstract should help the reader decide whether to proceed reading the paper in its entirety or skip it.

  You may, if you so wish, copy or paraphrase the abstract of a published paper in the literature, as long as it meets the above criteria. In this case, please identify the original source in a footnote.

• The rest of the document should have some mathematical formulas, a table or two with at least four columns and four rows, at least five citations, a picture using an embedded postscript file, and a list of references for the citations contained in the paper.

What to turn in:

• Send a postscript file of your document to rwheel@cse.ucsc.edu
• Important: Bring a hard copy of your document to class on Tuesday, November 26, 1996. On that date, Professor Anujan Varma will give a presentation and lead a discussion on how to write a technical paper. As part of the discussion, students will share the abstracts they wrote, criticize them, and offer suggestions for improvement.