8 March 2017 Agenda

Agenda for the Informatics Board of Studies meeting at 2.00pm Wednesday 8th March 2017, 1.B10, Forrest Hill

Agenda

1. Apologies - 

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Items rolled forward from BoS 22nd February 2017

Item 5. Course Proposal Change – Machine Translation - A. Lopez - UPDATE - Send to College

Outcome: Approved

Action: To be re-submitted with the recommended changes CREDITS  and sent to college

Course Proposal Change - Machine Translation - Adam Lopez - UPDATE (10 credit change) (83.13 KB PDF)

Item 6. Course Proposal Credit Change - Text Technologies for Data Science  - W. Magdy - UPDATE  - Send to College

Outcome: Approved

Action: To be re-submitted with the recommended changes FOR WORKING HOURS and sent to college

TEXT TECHNOLOGIES FOR DATA SCIENCE Course Upgrade - W.Magdy 08.03.2017 (594.54 KB PDF)

Item 7. Course Proposal - PgCert in Informatics by Distance Education - B. Fisher. Umbrella degree so Informatics can offer our (currently) 5 Distance Education courses directly, rather than through Medicine's DSTI course.

Outcome: Approved

Action: Contact ITO with changes and then submit to College.

Item 8. Course Change Proposal - Computer Communications and Networks (COMN) - M. Lee

Outcome: Approved

Action: Contact ITO to arrange scheduling of lectures.

Item 13. Course Proposal (re-submitted)– Robot Learning and Sensorimotor Control – M. Mistry & S. Vijayakumar - UPDATE - Send to college

Outcome: Approved

Action: To be re-submitted with the recommended changes CREDITS AND ASSESSMENT and sent to college

Revised Course Proposal – Robot Learning and Sensorimotor Control (RLSC) – M. Mistry & S. Vijayakumar (41.48 KB PDF)

3. Matters Arising

4a. Revised Course Proposal  - Principles and Design of IoT Systems (PDIoT) - D K Arvind

Revised Course Proposal - Principles and Design of IoT Systems (PDIoT) - D K Arvind (726.11 KB PDF)

4b. Revised Course Proposal  -  IoT Systems, Security, and the Cloud (IoTSSC) - P. Patras

Revised Course Proposal - IoT Systems, Security, and the Cloud (IoTSSC) - P. Patras (692.58 KB PDF)

5. Course Proposal (rename IRP & change course descriptor)  - Informatics Project Proposal (IPP)  - S. Goldwater

UPDATED Course Proposal (rename IRP & change course descriptor) - Informatics Project Proposal (IPP) - S. Goldwater 02.03.2017 (356.62 KB PDF)

6. New Course Proposal - Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers - Aggelos Kiayias

Course Proposal - Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers - Aggelos Kiayias (39.35 KB PDF)

7. New Course Proposal - Advanced Topics in Cyber Security and Privacy - Myrto Arapinis

Course Proposal - Advanced Topics in Cyber Security and Privacy - Myrto Arapinis (42.43 KB PDF)

8. Course Proposal (course change) - Natural Laguage Understanding - Frank Keller

Course Proposal (course change) - Natural Language Understanding - Frank Keller (33.91 KB PDF)

9. Course Proposal (assessment change) -  Introductory Applied Machine Learning (Full & Distance Learning)  [10 mins] Nigel Goddard

Introductory IAML-Proposal to change coursework-exam weighting - N.Goddard 08.03.2017 (38.24 KB PDF)

10. Course Proposal (changes) -  Introduction to Vision and Robotics - Maurice Fallon

Small change to UG3 course- Introduction to Vision and Robotics - Maurice Fallon - 01.03.2017 (105.15 KB PDF)

11. Course Proposal (assessment/learning outcome change) (re-submitted) – Applied Databases - S. Maneth.

Teaching Course Proposal - Proposal Changes to Applied Databases Course Descriptor Web Page - Sebastian Maneth (187.58 KB PDF)

12.  Course Proposal  (assessment/learning outcome change) - Randomized Algorithms  - Mary Cryan

Course Change Proposal Randomized Algorithms (INFR11089) - Mary Cryan 03.03.2017 (106.75 KB PDF)

13. Course Proposal (lesson scheduling and learning outcome change) -  Informatics 1 - Computation and Logic (Item from TC)  - Mike Fourman

Course Proposal (change) - Informatics 1 - Computation and Logic (INFR08012) - Mike Fourman (160.02 KB PDF)

14. AOCB