CA107: TOPICS IN COMPUTING

Module co-ordinator :  Prof. Alan Smeaton
Year :  2004/2005.
Module aim :  To introduce students to the variety of applications to which computing is successfully applied. See more details in the University's offical module descripter.
Lecture room :  Timetable and location CG12 (in the Henry Gratten Building, ground floor)

This year (2004/5) is the third year of the module CA107, Topics in Computing.  The home page for the module from 2003/4, is available. 
Exam Format: Many students ask me about how this module is examined. As the module descriptor says, there is no continuous assessment, and the module is examined by a single, 2-hour examination. The format of this examination is that it will consist of 5 questions, and you will be required to answer ANY THREE of these questions. All questions will carry equal marks and each of the five questions on the paper will ask something about ONE of the 11 topics in the course. None of the 11 topics will be repeated twice. Each question will be general, and broad.  See Spring 2003 exam paper, and the repeat (Autumn 2003) paper and the Spring 2004 exam paper (campus access only) for the kind of questions that are likely to come up. There was no paper in Autumn 2004 (no students turned up for examination). 
Timetable for the lectures: The module will consist of 11 lectures and the schedule is below, but it is subject to change as lectures might get swopped around.

Results of the Survey of the 2004 Student Opinion of Teaching on this module


Lecture Date Lecturer Topic Links
27 Sept Prof. Alan Smeaton Introduction to Course Module overview PPT
 1 27 Sept Prof. Alan Smeaton Digital Video and Computers PPT of lecture (*) and 
link to other resources
2 4 Oct Dr. Mike Scott Cryptography PPT of lecture and links to other resources
 4 11 Oct (note changed date) Dr. Rory O'Connor HCI - How to Design Better Interfaces Link to material
3 18 Oct Prof. Josef van Genabith Web Based Language Translation Tools Link to material
25 Oct No Lecture -- --
5 1 Nov Dr. Liam Tuohey Scientific Computing Link to material
6 8 Nov Dr. John McKenna Talking to Computers and Computers Talking to You Link to material
7 15 Nov Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick Using Devices Other than Screens and Keyboards for Human Computer Interaction Link to material
8 22 Nov Charlie Daly Digitising Music Link to material
9 29 Nov Howard Duncan Where has all the money gone ? ATMs and Electronic Money Link to material
10 6 Dec Brian Stone Data Communications and Networks Link to materials
11 13 Dec Dr. Alistair Sutherland Face and Hand Gesture Recognition using Computer Vision Link to material


 
 
(*) If you want to print a PowerPoint (.ppt) file at 6 slides per page you can do this yourself by mousing over the link to the PPT file, save it locally, then launch PowerPoint, go to Print, choose to print handouts, select 6 per page, and that'll do it for you.