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Intelligent Media TechnologiesFDA143, 2003VT
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Course plan
No of lectures
16 hours
Recommended for
Graduate and D-level students with programming experience.
The course was last given
New course.
Goals
To develop the ability to identify and implement useful "intelligent media technologies" -- friendly, adaptive end-user applications, services, and devices.
Prerequisites
Programming experience.
Organization
The course is organized as a series of design sessions, discussions, and small, weekly "deliverables." The course will meet two times a week for 8 weeks; each week will be divided between design sessions – and "status" presentations/discussions of student projects.
Contents
This is a project-oriented, design course for implementers of intelligent,
end-user applications, services, and devices. Students will be asked to form
teams, propose original projects, and implement working prototypes by the end
of the course.
The actual course content will be somewhat determined by student projects, but
in general the course will explore relevant aspects of: implementation
techniques from AI; agent models and techniques; distributed consumer
technologies (peer-to-peer, web logs, instant messaging, personalized news
services, coordination software, etc.); "physical software & sensor systems"
(PDAs, artificial pets, intelligent houses, etc.); end-user programming;
intelligent interface design; and techniques for determining end-user needs for
which intelligent media technologies are appropriate (and viable).
Literature
Readings will be adapted to the actual projects developed by course participants; these readings will be short and distributed as needed.
Lecturers
Kevin McGee
Examiner
Kevin McGee
Examination
Active participation, weekly deliverables, and a public presentation of a completed final project.
Credit
5 credits
Comments
Course language is English. Note: the emphasis in this course is on "actual implementations." Students are free to choose any programming language (C, Java, Lisp, etc.) or technology platform (software, hardware/robotics, mixed, etc) – but a final project cannot be a "mock up" or "Director presentation."
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