Final Paper

The final paper provides research background and analysis of a focused area of research, along with a proposal for a new project in that area. For those doing a senior project or thesis, the proposed project will bet the project they plan to complete. For everyone else, the project can be anything in the general domain of your section's focus. For example, a student in section 3 could propose a human-robot teaming challenge, while a student in section 5 might design a small programming language for some purpose or file a Python PEP to contribute to an existing programming language. You will complete your survey paper in a number of steps:

0. You will be using LaTeX to write your final paper. As a refresher (or introduction) to LaTex, this milestone you will use LaTeX to create a short autobiography. Further details are available here.
1. Paper Topic Proposal: Identify the topic of your survey paper and propose a new project in that domain. Even for those who aren't doing a senior project, you will still need to identify a subfield of the high-level topic specific to your section and identify at least one idea for a new project relating to that topic.
2. Bibliography: Your submission should include a few sentences describing your topic of interest and at least ten properly formatted citations. Your bibliography should be created using bibtex.
3. Annotated bibliography: Read your initial 10 papers and others you discover along the way. For each paper you read, write a paragraph or two summarizing the paper. This will become your annotated bibliography. Your annotated bibliography should be written in LaTeX and must cite the relevant papers using bibtex entries.
4. Outline + introduction: A critical part of a good paper is that the author should provide some good analysis and organization of the subfield that the paper discusses. A survey paper is not simply a paragraph by paragraph summary of papers. Your outline should consist of the section and subsections that you plan to have for the paper. Use descriptive section names for these headings. You should also include the text for your introductory section. It should give a very high-level overview of the paper topic and also outline how you have organized your paper. Your introduction and outline should include preliminary citations where appropriate.
5. Draft: The final paper should be at least 6 pages and at most 10 pages long and should cite at least 10 papers, though it's likely that you will cite more. You must also include at least one figure or table that you generated (though more might also be helpful). The draft should be a complete draft, i.e. should have all of the sections filled in, although it may be a little rough. We will use the official ACM template (see the starter).
6. Final paper: The final version of the paper should be properly formatted, meet all the requirements outlined in the draft (length, number of citations, table/figure), be free of any grammar or spelling issues, be well organized, and should include changes made to address the review feedback. Students working on a group senior project should talk with their senior project advisor and 190 instructor since the requirements will vary slightly.
7. Presentation: You will present your final paper during the scheduled final exam slot. Your final presentation should be approximately 10 minutes.