Additional Topics

Lecturer: Professor A. Hopper and others (hopper@eng.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 12

Prerequisite courses: none

Aims

The aim of this course is broaden the experience of students by asking expert guest lecturers to discuss real-world issues which are of current interest to the computer community.

Lectures

• 16/2/2001, 19/2/2001, 21/2/2001: Prof. Andy Hopper (3 lectures) "Active Badges, Sentient Computing and Multimedia"
  Recommended reference: Lecture handouts

• 23/2/2001, 26/2/2001: Dr. Alan Blackwell (2 lectures) "Object Oriented Software Design"
  Recommended reference: Lecture handouts

• 28/2/2001 Dr. Alan Jones (1 lecture) "The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS)"
  Recommended reference: Global Positioning System Overview

• 2/3/2001 To be announced (1 lecture)

• 5/3/2001 Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes (1 lecture) "The Outlook for Workstations and Servers"

• 7/3/2001 Prof. George Coulouris (1 lecture) "Quality of Service Issues"
  Recommended reference: Distributed Multimedia Systems

• 9/3/2001, 12/3/2001, 14/3/2001 David Rainford of Taylor Vinters (3 lectures) "Intellectual Property"
  Recommended references: "A Guidebook to Intellectual Property Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs", Robin Jacob and Daniel Alexander
  Patents Information Services at the British Library

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

• realise that the range of issues affecting the computer community is very broad

• be able to take part in discussions on several subjects at the frontier of modern computer engineering

• appreciate some of the areas of computer and communications research which are currently firing peoples imagination and understand the key issues in Intellectual Property ownership and protection