Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering

University of Nevada, Reno

CS 426 Senior Projects

Project Poster (POST)

April 12, 2004

Due: Monday, April 19, 11:59 pm (by email)

Points: 20

Weight in course grade: 4%

For the Senior Projects Workshop that will be held on Friday, April 30 you have to prepare a poster describing your project. The poster should be a one-slide PowerPoint file with the following content:

· Poster header:

• Project title
• Team members’ names and affiliation (“Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno” or “CSE Department, UNR”)
• Instructor’s name and affiliation
• External advisor(s)’ names and their affiliation

· Poster body:

• Project abstract (recommended: between 80 and 160 words)
• Project description: concise presentation of the project’s main goals, features, and architecture. This part should be structured in several sections of your choice. You can use text and diagrams from your project’s specification and design parts and I strongly recommend inclusion of at least one snapshot of your program’s user interface.
• Future work: at least three directions of further development
• Conclusion: (recommended: between 80 and 160 words)
• [Optional] Acknowledgments
• [Optional] Main references

By the due date submit your poster to the instructor who, with help from the CSE Department, will take care of printing all project posters of the CS 426 class. For your reference, three samples of previous Senior Project posters (2003) are available on the course website.