Computer Laboratory – Course material 2007

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Additional Topics

Lecturer: Professor A. Hopper and others

No. of lectures: 15

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

Location, Technology and Context Aware Systems [4 lectures, Professor A. Hopper]
Cryptography, Security, and Ubiquitous Computing [3 lectures, Dr F.M. Stajano]
The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) [1 lecture, Dr A. Jones]
Spatial Computing and Cars [1 lecture, Dr J.K. Fawcett]
Advanced Protocols [2 lectures, Dr G. Mapp]
Thin Client Systems [2 lectures, Dr A. Harter]
Broadband Fixed Wireless Access [1 lecture, Dr I.J. Wassell]
Guest lecture [Mr Peter Whale, Staff Product Manager, Qualcomm]

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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