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\title[Make a LaTeX presentation using Beamer]{Introduction  to Beamer\\Making a presentation with LaTeX}
\author{Andrew P. Black}
\institute{Department of Computer Science, Portland State University}
\date{31 Oct 2012}

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\center{\small Based on materials from \url{http://www.math-linux.com/spip.php?article77}}
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	\item{} Administration
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		\item{} Hand-back Homework
		\item{} Project pre-deliverables
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	\item{} Skills
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		\item{} Making Slides
		\item{} Making Reports
		\item{} Managing Bibliographies
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			\item{} BibTeX  \url{http://www.bibtex.org/Using/}
			\item{} Library resources \url{http://guides.library.pdx.edu/managecitations}
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%		\item{} Critique a Talk 
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		\item{} How to write an Abstract
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	\item{} Privacy and the U.S. Government
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\begin{frame}{Writing an Abstract}
Guidelines from Kent Beck at a Panel session at OOPSLA ‘93 {\small \url{http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/170000/165934/p429-johnson.pdf}}\\[2ex]

\textit{Condense your paper into one startling sentence.}\\[2ex]

\ldots find the one thing you want to say that will catch [the reader's] interest. If you have been working on the world's niftiest program night and day for five years, the temptation is to include absolutely everything about it, \emph{``The Foo System In All Its Glory.''} It'll never work. I know it's painful to ignore all those great insights, but find the most significant thing you have done and write it down: \emph{``Network garbage collection is fast and easy''.} You want the reader's eyes to open wide when they realize what it is you've just said.\\[2ex]

%I think some people are reluctant to boil their message down to one startling sentence because it opens them up to concrete criticism. If you write about the Foo System and someone says it isn't neat, you can just reply, ``Is so, nyah!'' If you say that network garbage collection is easy, it is a statement that is objectively true or false. You can be proven wrong. Wait! You spent five years proving it was easy. Make you case.

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%The abstract is your four-sentence summary of the conclusions of your paper. Its primary purpose is to get your paper into the \emph{A} pile. Most PC members sort their papers into an \emph{A} pile and a \emph{B} pile by reading the abstracts. The \emph{A} pile papers get smiling interest; the \emph{B} pile papers are a chore to be slogged through. By keeping your abstract short and clear, you greatly enhance your chances of being in the \emph{A} pile.
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``I try to have four sentences in my abstract. The first states the problem. The second states why the problem is a problem. The third is my startling sentence. The fourth states the implication of my startling sentence. An abstract for this paper done in this style would be:
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The rejection rate for OOPSLA papers is near 90\%. Most papers are rejected not because of a lack of good ideas, but because they are poorly structured. Following four simple steps in writing a paper will dramatically increase your chances of acceptance. If everyone followed these steps, the amount of communication in the object community would increase, improving the rate of progress.
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Credit and debit card fraud is not a big problem for consumers, because they are usually indemnified by the card issuing bank. However, it is a multibillion-dollar-problem for the banks, so much so that they decline to say how much it costs them.
Banks have been reluctant to introduce any real security measure, fearing that this would discourage the use of cards.
However, increasing losses due to fraud have forced them to change their attitude: this paper surveys current proposals for increasing credit and debit card security, and the likely effects on consumers, criminals, merchants, and banks.
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Credit and debit card fraud is not a big problem for consumers, because they are usually indemnified by the card issuing bank. However, it is a multibillion-dollar-problem for the banks, so much so that they decline to say how much it costs them.
Banks have been reluctant to introduce any real security measure, fearing that this would discourage the use of cards.
However, increasing losses due to fraud have forced them to change their attitude: this paper surveys current proposals for increasing credit and debit card security, and the likely effects on consumers, criminals, merchants, and banks.
We predict that only the banks will be happy.
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