Wednesday May 26, 2:30, ECS642

Forum: Showcasing your CS Theory and Math ideas on the Internet.

Part of our job is to sell our ideas. There are several mediums we should use, but a particularly important and challenging one is the Internet. The potential size of your audience in enormous and there seem to be an endless number of ways to present your work. We'll talk about this during our forum on Wednesday May 26, at 2:30 after a brief primer by myself*. Topics will include some or all of the following:

- Identifying your audience and purpose behind Internet publishing. Is it for self promotion? Are you making tools for other students? For researchers? Do you want to generate interest in your research area?

- Identifying the material you want to publish.

- Available tools, their usefulness and learning curve. For example Wordpress websites, Flash, Javascript, HTML5

- Confronting the web development:
Maximize (the quality of your publications) subject to
x <= what you can do or learn
x >=0

- Sharing examples of interesting examples of CS Theory and Math homepages, as well as more substantial projects.

- Reaching your audience with search results and such.

*I don't, by any means, have the answers to these questions, and my own internet footprint and publishing skills are modest. I have a recently acquired informal knowledge of Joomla (like wordpress), Flash and mysql, the current state of which can be found at http://alejandroerickson.com/ .