CA107: TOPICS IN COMPUTING

Module co-ordinator :  Prof Alan Smeaton
Year :  2003/2004
Module aim :  To introduce students to the variety of applications to which computing is successfully applied. See more details in School's offical module descripter.
Lecture room :  Timetable and location XG21 (in the Science Building, ground floor)

This year (2003/4) is the second year of the module CA107, Topics in Computing.  The home page for the module from last year, 2002/3, is available. 
Exam Format: Many students ask me about how this module is to be 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 12 topics in the course. None of the 12 topics will be repeated twice. Each question will be general, and broad.  See last year's exam paper and the repeat (Autumn 2003) paper (campus access only) for the kind of questions that are likely to come up. 
Timetable for the lectures: The module will consist of 12 lectures and the schedule below, but it is subject to change as lectures might get swopped around.

Results of the Survey of Student Opinion of Teaching on this module
(it should be noted that this survey was completed by the (biased) sample of those who turn up for lectures and did not include the large number of students who choose not to attend lectures)
 
Lecture Date Lecturer Topic Links
3 Oct Prof. Alan Smeaton Introduction to Course Module overview PPT
 1 3 Oct Prof. Alan Smeaton Digital Video and Computers PPT of lecture and 
links to other resources
2 10 Oct Dr. Mike Scott Cryptography PPT of lecture and links to other resources
3 17 Oct Dr. Andy Way Web Based Language Translation Tools PPT of lecture and links to other resources
 4 24 Oct Dr. Rory O'Connor HCI - How to Design Better Interfaces Materials available here
5 31 Oct Dr. Liam Tuohey Scientific Computing Materials available here
6 7 Nov Dr. John McKenna Talking to Computers and Computers Talking to You Materials available here
7 14 Nov Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick Using Devices Other than Screens and Keyboards for Human Computer Interaction PPT of lecture
8 21 Nov Charlie Daly Digital Music Link to PPT (with links embedded in the slides)
9 28 Nov Prof. Josef van Genabith Natural Language Processing PDF of slides
10 5 Dec Howard Duncan Where has all the money gone ? ATMs and Electronic Money Materials available here
11 12 Dec Brian Stone Data Communications and Networks PDF of Slides here
12 19 Dec Dr. Alistair Sutherland Face and Hand Gesture Recognition using Computer Vision PPT available here