The purpose of a technical presentation is to present information to an informed audience. You should expect and be prepared for questions. Always evaluate your audience and deliver a presentation geared to their level (e.g. do not describe the evolutionary learning process (they already know this) - explain your approach and where it deviates from the standard). These also tend to be more relaxed and informal, since they are usually delivered to co-workers. You will give a lot of these during your career, so you should spend some extra time to improve your delivery now.

Here are some tips to help you with your presentations for this class:

• always introduce yourself/team at the beginning
• always introduce yourself when you take over from someone else
• use your time wisely (don't spend 15 minutes on the evolutionary process and then rush thru 5 minutes of what you are doing)
• short presentations usually required prepared slides (don't waste 5 minutes drawing something on the board)
• try to avoid PowerPointItis (don't use 3 slides of bullet items instead of 1 diagram!)
• face the audience as much as possible (credibility)
• look at laptop instead of facing screen with your back to the audience
• don't just read bullet items (audience will tune you out after 1-3 minutes)
• keep text to a minimum
• use ample figures/drawings/pictures/animations/demos
• ok to point at the screen, but face audience when making a point
• ok to have "backup slides" and skip/not show them
• have summary of main questions (and reuse for next presentations)

• have a 1 slide summary of your previous talk
• screen captures of gui / movie of plays are good ways to show your NNs are improving
• updates to your spreadsheet and any changes needed