Monday, June 20, 2016

COMP8035 Autumn Repeat

To pass the repeat sitting of this module students must submit a 3500 word research paper on one of the following topics:

  • Price Discrimination
  • Big Data & Privacy
  • Prediction Markets
  • Ratings Culture
  • Higher Education 2.0


The essays will be marked using the same rubric that was provided to students for the first sitting.

The paper is to be submitted vis TurnItIn.com before 2300 on 17 August 2016. The Class ID and password are the same as during the semester.  Students who already registered for the class on turnitin need not re-register.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

COMP6023 Class 12.1 & 12.2

Attendance was poor. Two students worked on the website assignment. One student started it today.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

COMP8023 Class 12.1 & 12.2

I met with each of the four students who came to class and gave each some feedback on his/her essay.

I will have fuller feedback for everyone in due course. I will e-mail students individually as their papers are ready for collection.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Can you copyright the Klingon language

Interesting article

http://www.technollama.co.uk/can-you-copyright-the-klingon-language

Thursday, April 28, 2016

COMP6023 Class 11.4



We looked at coding schemes for different languages and I explained why UTF-8 is one of the cleverest things ever.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

COMP6023 Class 11.3



We looked at information architecture and how best to structure content on a website.  This class was based on the very popular book "Don't Make Me Think"

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

COMP8035 Classes 11.1 & 11.2

I gave back some of the papers I have received (late) with some comments. The comments weren't as thorough as on some others, but we are getting stuck for time.

I suggested to students that they might swap essays in advance of the next draft to try to catch typos and errors.

I met with each student to to get an update.

COMP6023 Class 11.1 & 11.2

Students were studying for an exam for another module. That's fine.

Students had an exam for another module during the second hour.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

COMP6023 Class 10.4

I talked about Data Protection, Privacy, and Big Data.

But I didn't do it justice. I managed to take a really interesting topic and make a boring lecture out of it. Sorry guys :-)

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

COMP6023 Class 10.3

We finished our look at SEO

COMP6023 Class 10.1 & 10.2 Lab B

Attendance was very poor.

Students worked on the assignment.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

COMP6023 Class 09.4



You say you like Pokemon, but you can only name Pikachu. But that's none of my business

We began our look at the dark art of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We will continue with this in the next lecture. 

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

COMP6023 Class 09.3

We had a whirlwind tour of Patents and Trade Marks.

COMP6023 Class 09.1 & 09.2 Lab B

Students worked on the assignment.

If you can't remember the password for your Wordpress and you don't have that much done, the quickest solution is to start again at Wordpress.com. If you have a lot done and want to continue with it I'll ask the technician to see what he can do for you.


Tuesday, April 12, 2016

COMP8035 Class 09.1 & 09.2

I returned all the drafts I received on time with comments. We discussed some of the common issues.

I hope to have the drafts that were submitted late corrected soon.

COMP6023 Deadlines

I will begin correcting Assignment 1 (blog) and Assignment 2 (images) starting on 25 April. There is no particular submission process. I will go to your blog and expect to find everything I need there.

Please ensure that the URL I have for you is correct
(It's over there ---->)
and make sure that there is a link to your image compression report.

I will begin correcting Assigment 3 (Wordpress) at the begining of Week 13 (9 May).

COM6023 Class 09.1 & 09.2

Students worked on the assignments. (A few worked on stuff for other modules. That's fine)

I met with each student just to make sure everything is going OK

Thursday, April 7, 2016

COMP6023 Class 08.4

We had to cancel class because I couldn't get the projector working.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

COMP6023 Class 08.3

We looked at copyright