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Additional Topics
Lecturer: Professor A. Hopper, Dr R.K. Harle and others
No. of lectures: 12
Aims
The aim of this course is to 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
The exact plan of lectures has not been settled at the time of publishing this document, but may include some of the following.
- Location, Technology and Context Aware Systems [Professor A. Hopper]
- Cryptography, Security, and Ubiquitous Computing [Dr F.M. Stajano]
- The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) [Dr A. Jones]
- Spatial Computing and Cars [Dr J.K. Fawcett]
- Advanced Protocols [Dr G. Mapp]
- Thin Client Systems [Dr A. Harter]
- Broadband Fixed Wireless Access [Dr I.J. Wassell]
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
Recommended reading
Stajano, F.M. (2002). Security for ubiquitous computing. Wiley. ISBN 0-470-84493-0
Campbell, A. & Nahrstedt, K. (1997). Building QoS into distributed systems. Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0-412-80940-0
Harter, A., Hopper, A., Steggles, P., Ward, A. & Webster, P. (1999). The anatomy of a context-aware application. Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM/IEEE International conference on Mobile computing and Networking (Mobicom '99), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 15-20 1999. Available for download from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/publications/public/ah12/acaa.pdf
Hopper, A. (1999). Sentient computing. The Royal Society Clifford Paterson Lecture 1999. Available for download from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/publications/public/files/tr.1999.12.pdf
Yang, S.J., Nieh, J., Selsky, M. & Tiwari, N. (2002). The performance of remote display mechanisms for thin-client computing. In Proceedings of the 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 10-15, 2002, pp. 131-146.
Global Positioning System Overview:
http://www.colorado.Edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html
Brown, C.M. & Terzopoulos, D. (ed.) (1995). Real-time computer vision. Cambridge University Press.
Webb, W. Introduction to wireless local loop. Second Edition: Broadband and Narrowband Systems.
Broadband Wireless Association: http://www.broadband-wireless.org/




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