The PLDI talks were only 15 minutes long this year. The sane way to approach a talk that short, I think, is as an advertisement for a paper.
For a 30-minute talk, you might be able to avoid the not-getting-beyond-background-material problem by preparing a 15-minute advertisement-style talk and then picking the one most interesting idea in it to flesh out thoroughly. Easier said than done, though! Good luck.
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Date: 2010-06-17 01:23 am (UTC)From:For a 30-minute talk, you might be able to avoid the not-getting-beyond-background-material problem by preparing a 15-minute advertisement-style talk and then picking the one most interesting idea in it to flesh out thoroughly. Easier said than done, though! Good luck.