Week 1: Introducing Advanced Topics in

CS / IS / BC

* Prof. Martin ShepperdDr Steve Counsell

Dr Simon Kent* Prof. Panos Louvieris

Dr Tim Cribbin

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Today's Lecture

1. Module aims2. Structure and organisation3. Assessment4. Teasers

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1. Module Aims

To develop skills in working as team members; researching and synthesising an

advanced topic from both academic and practical perspectives; conduct critical

analysis; make an effective presentation and discuss issues

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1. Module Aims

To develop skills in working as team members; researching and synthesising an

advanced topic from both academic and practical perspectives; conduct critical

analysis; make an effective presentation and discuss issues

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1. Module Aims

To develop skills in working as team members; researching and synthesising an

advanced topic from both academic and practical perspectives; conduct critical

analysis; make an effective presentation and discuss issues

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1. Module Aims

To develop skills in working as team members; researching and synthesising an

advanced topic from both academic and practical perspectives; conduct critical

analysis; make an effective presentation and discuss issues

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1. Module Aims

To develop skills in working as team members; researching and synthesising an

advanced topic from both academic and practical perspectives; conduct critical

analysis; make an effective presentation and discuss issues

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Motivators?

The process of evaluating and combining evidence to construct arguments is an important graduate

skill wanted by employers.

Opportunity to research advanced material in Computer Science / Information Systems.

Recent advances are astonishing. There was never a better time to study.

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Motivators?

Get a greater appreciation of the diversity, reach and impact of computer science

What drives DISC research?

What do we do?

Why does it matter?

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A Leading CS Department

Ranked top in the UK for 'Research Power' and we are by far the largest research grouping in the area

(RAE 2008)

NTU 2013 ranking of 8th in the UK

84th in the world (Microsoft Academic Search)

Three members of the department are ranked in the top 100 researchers in the world in their fields

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A Leading CS DepartmentAugmented Reality

Business Intelligence Cyber Security

Federated Cloud Computing Grid Computing

Healthcare informatics Machine Learning and Data Mining

Ontologies Sentiment Analysis in Social Media

Serious Gaming Software Engineering

...

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2. Structure and Organisation

Week TopicW16 IntroductionW17 Finding, evaluating and making

sense of source material W18-22 Four specialist research topics

(DISC senior researchers)W22-23 Specialist research topics

(student groups)W27 Revision

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3. Assessment

1. Group presentation (Pass/Fail)• but must also pass exam

2. Unseen examination (3 hours)• Section One is based on staff presentations• Section Two is based on student group

investigations• Therefore one question per topic

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Blackboard

Announcements

Teaching Materials

Lecturer and GTA engagement

Discussion Groups

Coursework

Feedback

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4. Appetisers

"As of 2013, the World Wide Web is estimated to have reached 4 Zettabytes." (wikipedia)

A zettabyte is 1000000000000000000000 bytes!

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Example: Soon and Baliunas controversy

Deeply flawed anti-climate change journal paper

published despite 4 reviews. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon_and_Baliunas_controversy

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Gastric freezing Pain relief

Treatment 1Gastric freezing

Treatment 2Placebo

Compare pain relief

Group 1

Group 2

Random allocation of subjects

Understanding Experiments

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Probabilistic Reasoning

Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, October 11, 2002 The menu at the Coffee Garden at 900 East and 900 South in Salt Lake City has included a scrumptious selection of quiche for about 10 years. The recipe calls for four fresh eggs for each quiche. A Salt Lake County Health Department inspector paid a visit recently and pointed out that research by the Food and Drug Administration indicates that one in four eggs carries salmonella bacterium, so restaurants should never use more than three eggs when preparing quiche. The manager on duty wondered aloud if simply throwing out three eggs from each dozen and using the remaining nine in four-egg-quiches would serve the same purpose. The inspector wasn't sure, but she said she would research it.

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Reading

There are no set text books.

You will need to read widely and critically.

Don't restrict yourself just to journal papers.

Share resources.