Computer Laboratory – Course material 2009

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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 following topics were addressed in the 2008/09 academic year and are expected to form the basis of the 2009/10 year. However, in order to present topics that are timely, some lectures may be changed in the Easter term.

Ubiquitous computing.
Physical principles of RFID.
Security protocols for RFID.
Location determination.
GPS.
Modern cryptography.
Computing for the future of the planet.
Sustainable energy.

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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