Course pages 2015–16

Topical Issues

Overview

Topical Issues is a fairly unique course within the CS Tripos. It is intended to broaden horizons and to provide basic grounding in some hot topics in the industry. This means that the lectures are often standalone rather than being a flowing series, and the list of topics covered often changes to track current trends. Where possible, guest lecturers are used to get expert views.

There are two exam questions on the course in Part II, although many students attend for interest rather than with the intention of doing the questions in the exams. Students are welcome to attend only a subset of the lectures.

Lecture Plan

The plan below is subject to change as the availability of guest lecturers can fluctuate at short notice.

F	22/04/16	Course intro, the Internet of Things	Robert Harle
M	25/04/16	Deep Belief Networks for Speech at Google	Matt Stuttle & David Singleton, Google
W	27/04/16	AlphaGo	George van den Driessche, DeepMind/Google
F	29/04/16	UWB Radio	Andy Ward, Ubisense
M	02/05/16	Getting Location for Mobile Devices	Robert Harle
W	04/05/16	Sensor Fusion Techniques	Robert Harle
F	06/05/16	Autonomous Vehicles	Robert Harle
M	09/05/16	Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)	Robin Heydon, CSR
W	11/05/16	Bluetooth Mesh	Robin Heydon, CSR
F	13/05/16	The Road to Autonomous Driving	Alan Jones, Cotares
M	16/05/16	RFID and NFC	Robert Harle
W	18/05/16	No lecture