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      <pubDate>2020-03-27 12:11:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>CYBER 1: Fundamental Concepts of Cyber Security</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Understand the basic concepts of cyber security (confidentiality, integrity and availability), how these are modeled (importance of identity, trust, reputation), threat models (adversary capabilities and goals), and basic control mechanisms to enforce security policies (e.g. access control). </div>]]></description>
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         <title>CYBER 2: Network Security</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Understanding the fundamentals of network security and aspects of security in different networked systems (TCP/IP, 4/5G, IoT, SDN), main network attacks and defence mechanisms and components. </div>]]></description>
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         <title>Foundations of Cryptography</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484212663</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Introduce foundational concepts and results in modern cryptography and develop a firm understanding of fundamental symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic mechanisms, including various security models, and how to prove security.  </div>]]></description>
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         <title>MALF or FACI (Teaching shared with MSc Cyber)</title>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:11:05 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Neural networks</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484214684</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Introduce the student to the main concepts of feedforward neural networks, from the simplest sum-and-threshold units through to application of networks to real problems. The student will learn about training paradigms for artificial neural networks. The aim is to equip the student to use artificial neural networks appropriately to solve a range of problems and to evaluate the results appropriately.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:12:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Software engineering for data science</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484215141</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Dealing with big data and distributed data. Learning about the frameworks for dealing with big data. Hive/hadoop. (advancing these topics from data1 and data2, actually implementing a system). Drawing on SWE from other streams. Data management and data governance.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:12:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Advanced statistical machine learning</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484215703</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | GLMs, mixture models, survival analysis,(and Bayesian variants thereof), datasets with mixed data types,  </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:12:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Machine Learning for Data Science</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484216322</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Focus on interaction with real-world problems. SVMs, trees and random forests, ensemble methods. Data management and data governance. Meta-analysis (learning from various datasets). Evaluation of confidence about results, how to convey to clients</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:12:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>High-Integrity/Trustworthy/Dependability Systems Engineering</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484220774</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Teaches students to adapt their software development practice to take account of the general criticality and the specific risks of the specific software they are developing.<br><em>NB this </em><strong><em>not </em></strong>a pure“safety critical systems” module</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:15:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Model-Driven Systems Engineering</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484221334</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Domain-specific languages, graphical and textual syntaxes for DSLs, model transformation, validation and code generation</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:15:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Component-Based Systems Engineering</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484223174</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | - Web services/REST APIs- Messaging- Containers</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:16:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Adaptive and Autonomous Systems Engineering</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484223478</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Students will learn state-of-the art techniques, and gain skills required for the engineering of adaptive and autonomous systems ranging from autonomous software agents to autonomous mobile robots.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:16:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Applied HCI</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484224080</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Social implications, ethics, responsible/inclusive design, linking HCI to industry context</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:17:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Advanced HCI research/evaluation methods</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484224366</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Teach more about a range of evaluation methods, understanding pros/cons, and provide opportunities to practice these</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:17:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Games for social good</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484224597</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Design of games for applied purposes, how games can be used in beneficial ways </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:17:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Player Experience (PX) in Digital Games</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484224967</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Develop an understanding of key player experience concepts, methods of evaluation </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:17:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Game AI</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484225447</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Develop an understanding of game AI as applied in competitive and cooperative environments (i.e. game theory / reinforcement learning). This would bring students (relatively) up to date with current industry practice around RL application in (e.g.) financial trading, robotics, autonomous cars.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:17:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Computer Vision</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484226071</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Introduce modern computer vision, the main applications and challenges, and learning-based (e.g. CNN) versus model-based (e.g. structure-from-motion) approaches.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:18:08 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Discrete Optimisation</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484226734</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Understand the central methods for discrete optimisation, and be able to apply them to realistic problems such as resource allocation, scheduling, routing, and packing. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:18:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Evolutionary and Bio-inspired Agents and Algorithms</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484227113</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Understand the principles underlying natural selection and apply them to function optimisation, and the evolution of behaviour in multi-agent systems.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:18:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Introduction to Software Assurance [autumn term]</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484232557</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | An introduction to contemporary approaches in formal software specification and verification. Methods based on both theorem proving and model checking will be covered.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:21:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Advanced Software Assurance [spring/sum]   </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484232934</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Prerequisite = Intro to sw assurance</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:21:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Quantum Computation</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484233201</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Introducing both the promise and limitations of quantum computation.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:21:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Advanced Algorithms: design and analysis [Theory according to ACM classification] cross over with Software stream?</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484233634</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Contents: Algorithm design techniques (backtracking, branch and bound, dynamic programming, etc); distributed/parallel/concurrent ; graph/network algorithms ; approximation algorithms ; probabilistic/metaheuristic algs ;  [need to have something that one person can teach]</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:22:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Software Testing [Also Engineering]</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484235192</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | This should be a kind of SOTE 2.0. We should be able to revisit more formally and more theoretically what students have seen in stage 1 (SOF1 &amp; 2) and stage 2 (Engineering 1). At the end of this module, the student should be able to plan, conduct and evaluate testing on a wide variety of software systems.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:22:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Advanced Functional Programming [Also Theory &amp; Engineering]</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484235583</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | See topics taught in FUNC; depends on what gets into SOF3</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:23:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Logic programming &amp; Constraint Programming (Also IS)</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484235907</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Currently what is taught in CONS (new module started this year). Learn a new programming paradigm to complete the one seen in year 1 and 2 (namely, procedural, functional, object oriented).</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:23:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Using theory to develop algorithms</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484236303</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Apply Hoare/Dijkstra/Morgan theory to development of algorithms</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:23:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Embedded Systems</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484237180</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Development of embedded systems, covering modelling, debugging, interfacing, and comms.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:23:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Real-Time Systems</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484237483</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Real-time analysis, scheduling, timing, fault tolerance. The programming of such systems, and associated LSEPI.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:24:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>High-performance Parallel and Distributed Systems [HPDS]</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484237857</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | HPC and related technologies, covering on and off node parallelism, accelerators, clouds.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:24:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Performance-centric Networking (?)</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ian_gray2/9mt233uopo0k/wish/484238314</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Summary of aims: (~25 words)</strong> | Aspects of networking, pushing in to IoT, wireless networking etc.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 12:24:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Robotics</title>
         <author>ian_gray2</author>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 14:04:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Computer Graphics</title>
         <author>ian_gray2</author>
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         <pubDate>2020-03-31 14:05:14 UTC</pubDate>
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