Aim:
This module aims at strengthening the ability of students to understand scientific material, to present it in a comprehensible fashion - both orally and in written form -, and to discuss scientific questions that arise in the course of a presentation. As an added feature, students will learn to do this in English.
Specific subjects that will be used for this purpose will change every year. They will be selected from the following
- Artificial Intelligence
- Quantum Computing
- Cryptography
The first half of the course aims at training basic skills such as understanding structure and content of scientific material and lectures, writing scientific documents, preparing an oral presentation, and leading a scientific discussion. We will use general reading materials, video presentations, and the introductory chapters of the textbook for the respective subject. Students will learn how to extract relevant information from texts and lectures, how to summarize it as short abstract, how to present orally in English, and how to debate effectively. They will also learn the distinction between scientific and everyday language and how to choose vocabulary appropriate for a given context.
In the second half of the course students will train to prepare a scientific presentation by assembling information from a variety of sources like text book chapters, journals, conference articles, and web documents. They will learn to give a longer a scientific presentation using appropriate media, to lead a scientific discussion after the talk, and to write a summary of the presented material that includes insights gained in the course of the discussion.
Structure of the 2010 course
- We will discuss some of the fundamental issues and topics of artificial intelligence by studying some chapters of the book Artificial Intelligence. A modern approach by Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig.
- The course will be taught in cooperation with Wolfgang Lüer (Sprachenzentrum). As the course language is English only (!), participants should have some level of proficiency in the English language.
- Some additional guidelines for preparing a presentation can be found in Ian Parberrys "Speakers Guide for theoretical computer science"
- All organizational details will be discussed on April 22.
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