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DMP Final Report
As part of the Distributed Mentor Project, each student and her mentor
is expected to submit a Final Report.
The reports are to be submitted after the student has completed
the mentorship, and the submissions are part of the requirements for
the student's fourth (and last) stipend payment.
The student's final report is a technical paper describing her research
project. It should be included in the student's final website.
Guidelines and Requirements:
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The paper should provide a technical description of the project
and the results you obtained.
It should include a scholarly review of the related prior work,
including citations to the relevant literature.
The writing style and technical level should be similar to that which
would be used for a paper published in a technical conference in
that research area.
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A presentation (e.g., powerpoint slides) is not acceptable as
your final report - you must provide a technical paper. However, you
are welcome to include a technical presentation in addition to
your paper. Indeed, this is strongly encouraged if you have prepared
a presentation on your project.
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All materials (the required paper, and the optional presentation)
should be provided in pdf or postscript format.
You can do this easily by using a postscript printer and printing to a file
or by using a freely available program such as pdf995 to "print" documents
to a pdf file.
The mentor's final report is submitted using a web-based form
on the DMP participants website. The questions asked in the form
on the website are:
- Please give a brief description of the student's project
- Please give a brief evaluation of the student's performance. Did the student accomplish more or less than expected? Would you like to have this student as
a graduate student? In general, how happy were you with the student's work and
how does the student compare with other students at a similar level?
- Is there anything else you would like us to know (for example -- things that
did not work well, suggestions for improvement, methods you found useful to welcome the student into your research group, something interesting or exciting about this student)
- Is there anything you would like to tell the student (these comments, if any, will be forwarded to the student)?
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