This
course
is
designed for post-graduate students in computing science and
has three interlinked objective:
First, to describe the distinctive
nature of research in computing, a subject with substantive application
and significant intellectual challenge.
Second, to introduce the students to
the emerging discipline of knowledge management so that the student can
appreciate how knowledge flows in organisations and in the society at
large – causing the major paradigm shifts in computing.
Third, issues related to the
governance and laws related to the Internet will be discussed.
The students will be
able to discuss the matters outlined above with speakers, drawn from
academia and industry, during seminars given by the speakers. The
speakers will refer to their own career choices in computing.