Additional Topics Course 1999-2000

Lecturers and their topics:

• 18/2/2000, 21/2/2000, 23/2/2000: Prof. Andy Hopper (3 lectures) "Active Badges, Sentient Computing and Multimedia"
  Recommended reference: Lecture handouts

• 25/2/2000, 28/2/2000: Dr. Alan Blackwell (2 lectures) "Object Oriented Software Design"
  Recommended reference: Lecture handouts

• 1/3/2000 Dr. Alan Jones (1 lecture) "The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS)"
  Recommended reference: Global Positioning System Overview

• 3/3/2000 Frank Stajano (1 lecture) "Cryptography: more than you might think!"
  Recommended reference: Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, 2nd ed, Wiley, 1996

• 6/3/2000 Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes (1 lecture) "An update on Workstations and Servers"

• 8/3/2000 Prof. George Coulouris (1 lecture) "Quality of Service Issues"
  Recommended reference: Distributed Multimedia Systems

• 10/3/2000, 13/3/2000, 15/3/2000 Aiden Robson of Reddie & Grose (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