This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in knowing
state-of-the arts and applications of information technology. The objective of
this course includes: 1) understanding the current state of the art of
information technology; 2) identifying the research topics; and 3) writing a
research proposal in the related fields.

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 goals for writing a research problem.


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