CS266 final paper guidelines:
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Logistics: 
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The final paper is due monday Jan 10 by noon. Email the paper to me at
cs266-reviews@eecs.harvard.edu. The paper must be in *** PDF *** format.

Papers Statistics: 
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The papers must be no more than 10 pages long, including all figures
but not including the bibliography. Also, you can include
pseudocode in an appendix, that will be allowed outside the 10 page
limit.

Font size at least 10-point, single spaced. The main goal of the
formatting should be to make it easy to read - don't sacrifice
readability for increasing the amount of text you can cram in.

Paper Content:
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Papers should start with: Title, Author names, Author email addresses,
CS266 Final Project (Fall 2004).

Then there should be an abstract, no more than 150 words long.

The rest of the paper outline is upto you. Having a good clear outline
helps tremendously. Here's one recommendation: 

INTRO (1/2-3/4 page: what problem you solved, why that problem is
important, what your approach and salient features/results were);
BACKGROUND (1/2-3/4 page: what's the state of the art, related work);
APPROACH (brief description of your approach and what to expect next
in this paper); DETAILS (what you did); RESULTS (how you evaluated
what you did); DISCUSSION (limitations, future work); CONCLUDE;
REFERENCES. 

Another option is to take a well written paper from our list and look
at the organisation (the above organisation is lifted from my OSL
(AAMAS 2002) paper and was highly vetted by Hal Abelson)

Couple other recommendations
- pictures and diagrams speak a thousands words. Use them!
- give pseudocode for algorithms
- careful attention to the above can drastically reduce the amount of
  text (and ambiguity)
- be direct in your sentences. break long sentences.

Lastly, keep your proposal in mind and in the conclusion section I'd
like to know how far you got in achieving the milestones you set out
in your proposal.

Looking forward to reading about all the details!