Gio
Wiederhold (on sabbatical from Stanford University)
April-June 2000, at 14:15 - 15:15, room INJ218
Presentations in English –
but I'll try to manage discussions in French
and/or German.
I plan to cover the material in an integrating fashion, drawing from concepts in databases, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and business principles.
1. 13/4 Historical
background, enabling technology:
ARPA, Internet, DB, OO,
AI., IR, XML.
2. 27/4 Search
engines and methods
Recall, precision,
overload, semantic problems.
3. 4/5 Digital
libraries, information resources. Image processing.
Value of services,
copyright.
4. 11/5 E-commerce.
Client-servers. Portals.
Payment mechanisms,
dynamic pricing.
5. 19/5 Mediated
systems. Functions, interfaces, and standards.
Intelligence in processing.
Role of humans and
automation, maintenance.
6. 26/5 Software
composition. Distribution of functions. Parallelism.
[work with Dorothea Beringer,
ex EPFL]
7. 31/5 Application
to Bioinformatics.
8. 15/6 Educational
challenges. Discussion of challenges.
Expected changes in
teaching and learning.
9. 22/6 Privacy
protection and security.
Security mediation for
collaboration.
10.29/6 Summary and projection for the future.
Feedback and comments are appreciated.
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