Assignment Three: Reading List and Summary   Due Date:  24 November 2003

I would like you to at least try and learn Latex and bibtex.

By the time you write this you should be in a position to know the literature
that is most relevant to your project.  The assignment is to compile a list
of papers/books useful for the project. For the most interesting
ones write a paragraph or two summary, including why this is a useful or
interesting paper.

As further encouragement to at least give Latex a try (or Lyx), make the
bibliography using bibtex and the summaries using Latex.  If you use
pdflatex it will produce pdf as output.

Many online bibliographies provide bibtex entries.  One of the good things about
Latex is that you can add a new entry to your bibliography, and references
in the text will stay the same.  Latex will re-number the bibliography for you
and makes sure it is upto date.  MWord will not do this.  Also if you
re-arrange your figures or paragraphs or sections in Latex, references to them
(see \label) will be automatically changed and everything re-numbered
correctly.

The main problem with word is the fact that it it makes you do the type-setting,
What You See is ALL you get. You are probably not an expert typesetter and you
probably don't want to become one!  This is particularly true with the math
package.  Let Latex do all the work, all you have to do
is to use a few easy commands, even easier in Lyx.  You will find that writing
longer documents, like a thesis or even your final report will be much easier
done in Latex than in Word.

Most conferences these days make you use a template for formatting.  For 502
use the format found at http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions/index.html.