04 April 2018 Agenda

Agenda for the Extraordinary Informatics Board of Studies meeting at 2.00pm Wednesday 4th April 2018 in Appleton Tower, Room 7.14. This meeting replaces the original meeting that was scheduled for 28th March 2018.

Welcome to all members

 

Apologies - Alex Welsh (Secretary), Mary Cryan, Myrto Arapinis, Alex Lascarides.

 

Draft Minutes of Previous Meeting - 21st March 2018.

 

Matters Arising

 

Item 1 ) Revised Full Course Proposal - Alorithmic Foundations of Data Science (AFDS) - He Sun

For Information Only. Approved by Convenors action outwith BoS, and ISS have created new course on EUCLID (INFR11156).

 

Item 2) Full Course Proposal - Usable Security and Privacy (USec) - Kami Vania

For Information Only. Approved by Convenors action outwith BoS, and ISS to create new course on EUCLID.

 

Item 3 ) Revised Full Course Proposal - Informatics 1 Introduction to Computation (INF1A) - Don Sannella

For Information Only. Approved by Convenors action outwith BoS, and ISS to create new course on EUCLID.

 

Item 4) Full Course Proposal - Informatics Large Practical (ILP) - Stephen Gilmore

For Information Only. Approved by Convenors action outwith BoS, and ISS to create new course on EUCLID.

 

Item 5) Full Course Proposal - DSTI Dissertation (Informatics) - Bob Fisher

For Information Only. Approved by Convenors action outwith BoS, and ISS to create new course on EUCLID.

 

Item 6) Full Course Proposal - Natural Computing (NAT) - Michael Herrmann

For Information Only. Approved by Convenors action outwith BoS, and ISS to create new course on EUCLID.

Note that course abbreviations will be NAT for the campus version, and NAT-DL for the online version.

 

Item 7) Degree Programme Table (MInf) - Update - Stephen Gilmore

 

Item 8) Revised Full Course Proposal - Artificial Intelligence, Present and Future - Alan Smaill.

- Updated documentation to be provided at meeting.

 

Item 9) EPCC Timetabling / DPT for 2018/19 - Ben Morse

To check if there an update on the actions from last meeting.

 

Item 10) Changes to Bioinformatics 1 and Neural Computation for 2018/18 - Stuart Anderson & Matthias Hennig

To agree if Level 11 PG versions should be closed and replaced by Level 11 UG4 versions, or keep both courses running.

 

Item 11) Introductory Applied Machine Learning - Nigel Goddard, Stuart Anderson, Alan Smaill.

Clarification required on whether a revised proposal needed, or ISS can go ahead and create a third Level 11 UG4 IAML course based on the current Level 10 UG3 version with revisions provided via email. Note this is in addition to the online IAML version (Level 11 PG).

 

Item 12) Course List 2018/19 - Discussion of Possible Closures