PMP Distributed Systems, Winter 2004 Paper summaries:

For each paper that we are covering in class, you are responsible for writing a brief (approximately half page) paper summary. Your summaries are due by 4pm on the day we are covering the paper. To submit your summary, you should email it directly to me (and cc the course TA). Your paper summaries should focus on critical analysis of the content of the paper, independent of what "spin" the authors put on it. Specifically, your summaries should include the following components:

  Paper title:

  One-line summary of paper's contribution:

  The most important ideas in this paper are:

  The largest one or two flaws in the paper are:

  Relevance of paper to modern systems:
David Wetherall has put together a great set of guidelines for reviewing research papers; I recommend you read it.