Seminar in IT 2012
for IT in Business program (PhD) of Chulalongkorn Business
School
Prabhas Chongstitvatana
Semester: October - November 2012
Aim : Discussion and practice in constructing research arguments in the
area of IT. Four weeks lecture cover the following topics:
1) Argument: AI philosophy
2) Research in Computer Science
3) Writing a research paper: Review Process
4) State of the art in Computing Research : System
View
lecture 1) AI philosophy
John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky are two pioneers in the field of AI.
John McCarthy invented the term "Artificial Intelligence" (passed away Oct
2011)
Article:
What has
AI in Common with Philosophy? - Formal Reasoning ...
by J McCarthy - 1996 - Cited by 24 - Related articles
What has AI in Common with Philosophy? John McCarthy. Computer Science
Department. Stanford University.
General reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence
Chinese Room Argument
general reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
more details: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
original article: Searle,
John (1980), "Minds,
Brains and Programs", Behavioral
and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417–457, doi:10.1017/S0140525X00005756
assignment: Write up your argument for your position in Strong/Weak
AI. Just arrange your argument into writing. Some references are
required. Make it two A4 pages. Email it to me at prabhas at chula dot
ac dot th not later than Monday so that I can prepare your discussion in
the next class.
Additional materials
IBM's Watson in the game of Jeopardy at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE
Super
human like android by Ishikuro (mp4 video 46.7 Mbytes)
lecture 2) Research in Computer
Science
Somchai Prasitjutrakul : Research in Computing (ppt)
In class work
Read the paper from this list: Journal of the ACM, Top 10 Downloaded
Articles (past 6 weeks)
http://dl.acm.org/pub.cfm?id=J401&CFID=125737930&CFTOKEN=63254807
Scheduling
Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment - 1973
Authoritative
sources in a hyperlinked environment - 1999
Computer
Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing - 1968
From IEEE
Mohammadi,
Gelareh; Vinciarelli, Alessandro
Affective
Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Volume:
3 , Issue: 3
Digital
Object Identifier: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2012.5
Publication
Year: 2012 ,
Page(s): 273 - 284
Songwei
Pei; Huawei Li; Xiaowei Li
Very
Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Volume:
20 , Issue: 12
Digital
Object Identifier: 10.1109/TVLSI.2011.2170227
Publication
Year: 2012 ,
Page(s): 2157 - 2169
Noh,
M.; Kim, S.-W.; An, S.; Koh, J.-S.; Cho, K.-J.
Robotics,
IEEE Transactions on
Volume:
28 , Issue: 5
Digital
Object Identifier: 10.1109/TRO.2012.2198510
Publication
Year: 2012 ,
Page(s): 1007 - 1018
Lecture 3) Writing a research
paper: Review Process
What is a good writing?
How to write a good research paper,
Simon Peyton Jones, from
research.microsoft.com
How an article is evaluated?
Accept and Reject -- How?
Examples of work (local only)
Journal article: High-Level Synthesis by Ants on a Tree Review
Journal article: Fragment as a Small Evidence of the Building Blocks
Existence
Conference article: Common structures identification for solving 3D bin
paking by genetic algorithm Review
Conference article: A Cooperative Approach to Compact Genetic Algorithm for
Evolvable Hardware Review
Conference article: Diversity Control to Improve Convergence Rate in
Genetic Algorithms Review
Conference article: Improve robustness of GP-generated robot programs for
dynamic environments Review
Conference article: A DESIGN OF AN AES ENCRYPTION CIRCUIT WITH DYNAMIC
RECONFIGURATION Review
Lecture 4) State of the art in
Computing Research : System View
Macro scale
Exascale Computing
1) Exaflop machine The full report TR-2008-13.pdf
(3 Mb)
2) The Opportunities and
Challenges of Exascale Computing, (pdf 2 Mb) US Department of Energy,
Fall 2010
3)
The tops in flops, Kogge, P., Page(s): 48 - 54 Digital Object
Identifier : 10.1109/MSPEC.2011.5693074
to learn more about supercomputing visit
www.top500.org
Micro scale
In depth of one advanced research:
Coincidence Algorithm
http://www.cp.eng.chula.ac.th/faculty/pjw/project/coin/index-coin.htm
Assignment: Write two pages about advantage/disadvantage that
Thailand has a national supercomputing.
End of this series of lectures
last update 4 Dec 2012
