Subject: Syllabus Update
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@buffalo.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:12:47 -0500

I have updated the syllabus to reflect what we accomplished last week
and what we will try to accomplish over the course of the rest of the
semester:

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/719/syl.html#dates

In particular, this coming Friday (Nov. 20), we will have:

    * Gezella's report on Chella & Manzotti 2007b
      (part 2)
    * Jensen's report on Buttazzo & Manzotti 2008
    * Ray's report on Boltuc 2008
    * Zeng's report on IJMC 1(2009)

I would like to finish all of these on Friday, so that we can cover
most of the "Tests of Consciousness" readings on the Friday after the
Thanksgiving break (please start reading those papers now, if you have
not already begun!).

Consequently, Gezella's presentation should be no longer than 20
minutes, and the other 3 presenters next week should try to ensure that
their presentations are no longer than about 40 minutes each.
(This factors in time for breaks between presentations.)

(Hint:  If you practice your talk out loud to either a real or an
imaginary audience, speaking in your normal speaking voice, and time
yourself, then you'll have an idea of how long your presentation is and
what you might need to cut in order to fit it in under the time
limits.  This is what you need to do in real life when you give a
presentation at a conference, so it's good practice to do this now!)

(You don't have to give a detailed presentation of every paper in your
anthology; you can concentrate on a few detailed presentations of
papers that you think are important or interesting, and be a bit more
sketchy on the others.)

-Bill Rapaport