一、課程說明(Course Description)

This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in knowing
state-of-the arts and applications of the information technology. The objective
of this course is guide students to recognize the current state of the art of
information technology and emerging killing applications and identify their
research topics and writing a research proposal in the related fields of
information technologies. The purpose is to lead students to find out
interesting research topics, widen the scope of the potential information
technology that might be used in different applications domains in the future.
Students will learn how to find an interesting IT application problem by
surveying a specific application domain, understand the current information
techniques available to solve the problem, assess the applicability and
weakness of the current IT technology to the problem, narrow down specific aims
as research goal for writing a research problem.


二、指定用書(Text Books)


None


三、參考書籍(References)


Web contents of research papers
Suggested reading papers will be handed out or assigned at class






四、教學方式(Teaching Method)

This course is intended to be conducted in a lecture and discussion style and
students will be assigned reading research papers on specific area. The guiding
lectures will be delivered. Students will ask to read papers and present
their research ideas on some research topic that could lead them to write and
present a research proposal in the end of the course. The faculty will give
advises to students at the class to refine their thoughts and
directions on the research proposal. The teaching and learning process in the
class is conducted in both oral and written reports in the class followed by
mutual discussions among students.




五、教學進度(Syllabus)


Total 16 weeks in a semester 48 Hrs (3 credit)
2~4 weeks of talks by course organizers
3 weeks presentation by speakers.
3 weeks for discussions
6~8 weeks presented by students
(Survey of research field, 1st proposal talks, second proposal talk)





六、成績考核(Evaluation)

Homework 20%
Participation & Discussion 20 %
Oral presentation 30%
Written proposal 20%
Final Report 10%