Cloud Computing

Tufts Cloud Computing | COMP 118 | Fall 2020

Reading papers & writing summaries


Much of this course involves reading and critically thinking about research papers. We've posted some resource below to get you started on how to read papers. We've also listed the questions you should answer when writing summaries for the papers.

Writing your summaries

Please use the following template for you summaries. Your summaries should be about 1-page long.

  1. What problem does the paper address?
  2. What is the approach the authors take to address the problem?
  3. How does the authors' approach contrast w/previous efforts (i.e., the related work)?
  4. How do the authors evaluate their approach?
  5. List one limitation or one possible extension of this work
  6. What is your opinion of this paper? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Why?