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CS913 - ST: Emerging Technology for IP Development
Prof. Thomas Cahill
Spring 2004, Tues. 6--8:15pm (Section 1), Thurs. 6--8:15pm (Section 2)
This Computer Science course will be an interdisciplinary
learning experience for Seniors and Graduate Students in the areas of
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Management.
Exercises will be done in Technology Lifecycles, Technology Forecasting
and contemporary Emerging Technologies.
The objective
of the course is to have students develop inventions, which through the
Patent process can be turned in Intellectual Property and eventually exploited
for business advantage.
http://www.invent.org/collegiate/overview.html
- Inventors Workshop 2; Driving forces in Technology “Push”
or “Pull;” fulfilling perceived and unperceived needs.
- Birth of AI to the “Expert System.” Inventors Workshop
3; The Dangers of “Futurism.” Alan Greenspan – the
current paradigm of Forecasting. Forecasting Techniques.
- Expert Systems to Case Based Reasoning. The failure of Japan’s
“Fifth Generation” project and the death of Supercomputers.
Inventors Workshop 4
- Intelligent Agents and the “New AI.” IBM’s "Autonomic
Computing" and its implications for IT and AI. Inventors Workshop
5
- History of Neural Network Technology. Inventors Workshop 6
- Evolution of Computer Speech Technology: Recognition and Synthesis.
Computer Speech Understanding and the prospect of a real HAL. Inventors
Workshop 7
- Quantum Computing with demonstrations (in Maple, that is). Quantum
Computing activity at Polytech. Inventors Workshop 8
- “Mid-Term” Exam
- Inventors Workshop 9 – review draft applications; final prior
art searches.
- Final Inventors Workshop
