CA550 - Practicum

Details	CA550 - Practicum The aim of this module is to expose the student to some real-world problem in the ecommerce area in order to allow the theoretical work covered in the earlier modules, to be put into practice. The practicum project is normally done in groups of (between) two and four people. Solo projects or projects involving more than four students are discouraged.  In addition, groups comprising both business and technical background members are strongly encouraged, where possible. Some important sources of information on the practicum are here: The Practicum Proposal Form is available now for submission. Recall that the due date is Friday 03^rd April. Information on the Second IBM Practicum is below. The first group meetings schedule. The CA550 overview presentation that I presented to the class in Semester 1, in November 2008. Note this is preliminary information. The CA550 overview presentation that I presented to the class in Semester 2, in March 2009. Note this is preliminary information. Detailed information regarding the practicum in 2007 (incl. guidelines and proposal forms). This will be updated to 2009 in Semester 2 An archive of practicum reports from 2001 to 2007. In 2009, there will be INVENT support for CA550, what this means is: INVENT will fund a 2009 CA550 Practicum start-up award, which will give one team a full year of office space and office equipment to a max value of €5,000. This will take place once the practicums are completed. INVENT to provide access to resident experts in different fields. Teams can send a team leader to meet and discuss with any of the resident experts during the practicums. I will provide more details of this later, but any team wishing to meet with the resident experts will need to contact Cathal Gurrin to organise this. INVENT may provide an opportunity for some students (who are interested) to sit on the INVENT business start programme. It starts on April 24th and runs for 6 hours per week (Friday evenings and Saturday mornings). Places are strictly limited, and access to the programme is based on an INVENT review of application. There is a limit of one person per practicum grouping allowed, though not all applications are likely to be successful.
Important Dates	There are a number of important dates: Friday 03^rd April 2009 – proposals due Friday 31^st July 2009 – practicum reports due Thursday 13^th – Friday 14^th August – practicum presentations
Practicum Proposals	External Industrial and Academic practicum proposals will be put before the 14^th of March. There will be a talk to the class at 2pm on Thursday 12^th March by an IBM representative. Awaiting confirmation of room booking. Further proposals will be added this week. 1 MyChannel. Dr. Cathal Gurrin When we turn on a TV, the viewer is presented with increasing quantities of TV programmes on live TV, increasingly large capacity DVRs (000’s hours) and increasingly large quantities of WWW video (IPTV broadcaster content and user created content). At present the TV viewer does not have the technologies to make use of these entertainment resources; the viewer is simply presented with a basic EPG and a long list of recordings to browse.. This idea for a practicum is to explore how existing CDVP video search technologies can be applied to solve this problem, and identify how this could be commercially exploited. Access will be given to CDVP video archives, video search engines and other related technologies. 2 Second IBM Practicum Since 2007 all new servers and major IT equipment now have built in energy management capability that allows realtime energy monitoring. IBM offers overarching IT energy management software product offering called Tivoli Active Energy Manager (AEM) to report and actively manage energy within the Tivoli enviroment. Green Sigma would like to adopt AEM as a component part of it's energy optimisation offering for IT. The important research we require to do is to baseline the current maturity/makeup of the data centre real estate (with respect to energy management among all main OEM's) and project forward to when the changeover is likely to take place in order for us to assess the viability of AEM within the Green Sigma offering. Also other practical power monitoring solutions could be researched and evaluated for possible adoption within Green Sigma as part of a Practicum deliverable. It is also anticipated that the US Government will declare some legislation/business requirement around appropriate energy management standards, and this practicum would be expected consider most of the front running existing energy standards that exist today, evaluating and comparing, so that we ensure that our offering covers most if not all of the likely kpi reporting and control elements of any impending US legislation.

Cathal Gurrin (2009)  -  last updated 09^th March 2009