Additional Topics

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

No. of lectures: 16 (Continued into Lent Term)

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

• 12/11/2001, 14/11/2001, 16/11/2001:
  Prof. Andy Hopper (3 lectures) "Networked Multimedia, Location and Personalisation, Sentient Computing"
  Recommended reference: Lecture handouts

• 19/11/2001:
  Dr Alan Jones (1 lecture) "The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS)"
  Recommended reference: Global Positioning System Overview

• 21/11/2001:
  Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes (1 lecture) "The Continuing Development of Workstations and Servers"

• 23/11/2001:
  Dr Tom Drummond (1 lecture) "Real Time Visual Tracking"
  Recommended reference: Brown & Terzopoulos, Real-time computer vision, CUP, 1995

• 26/11/2001:
  Dr Simon Garth, Symbian Ltd (1 lecture) "Wireless Data Services"
  Recommended reference: Lecture handouts

• 28/11/2002:
  Dr Ian Wassell (1 lecture) "Broadband Fixed Wireless Access"
  Recommended reference: 'Introduction to Wireless Local Loop. Second Edition: Broadband and Narrowband Systems', William Webb
  Broadband Wireless

• 18/1/2002:
  Prof. George Coulouris (1 lecture) "Quality of Service Issues"
  Lecture notes (PowerPoint)
  Recommended reference: Chapter 15 (Distributed Multimedia Systems) in "Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design" by Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg, Edition 3, Addison Wesley 2001.

• 21/1/2002, 23/1/2002, 25/1/2002:
  Mr Richard Clayton (3 lectures)
  "Hiding: Anonymous communication on the Internet"
  "Finding: Traceability on the Internet"
  "Regulating: Abuse, Bulk email, Cryptography, Defamation and Everything else"
  Recommended references: Lecture Handouts and LINX Best Current Practice : Traceability

• 28/1/2002:
  Perry Yam of S J Berwin Solicitors (1 lecture) "Company Law"
  Recommended reference: Lecture Handouts

• 30/1/2002, 1/2/2002, 4/2/2002:
  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 people's imagination and understand the key issues in Intellectual Property ownership and protection