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Paper

You need read only the following from Coen's thesis:

Multimodal Dyamics: Self-Supervised Learning in Perceptual and Motor Systems, by Michae Coen.

Optional Supplement

If you want more, you will find the entire thesis on line.

Assignment

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

Some advisory committees write reports that consist of an executive summary accompanied by something like 30 slides, which are supplemented by explanatory legends that supply useful detail beyond what is captured in the slides. If the slides are prepared according to 6.xxx maxims, the legends are essential, because the slides will be too telegraphic to be understood on their own. The legends range in length from a sentence to a page, tending to peak at a half page. This page, taken from a report of the Naval Research Advisory Comittee, illustrates.

This format is the one to be used for the project report for those of you doing projects.

In this exercise, you are to try your hand at an abbreviated version of this format. In particular, you are not to provide an executive summary, nor are you to provide more than a half dozen slides, and your legends should be closer to a sentence than than a page. Thus, you are to provide a slide show, except that the supplementary legends are meant to be read by a report reader, not spoken by you in oral delivery.

With a big red pencil, or equivalent, identify salient, slogan, symbol, and surprise (if any), in your slides or legends.