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I have been at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) for a month teaching a course called Clinical Text Mining at their Master program in Data Science. This is an exchange through Erasmus+.
I have enjoyed it a lot and also visiting associate professor Ion Androutsopoulos and his post doc Jannis Pavlopoulos at the AUEB Natural Language Processing group and learned a lot of new things among them how to generate text from radiology images.
Martin Henkel and Ilia Bider demonstrated the teaching concept of Apprenticeship Simulation at the EDOC conference in Stockholm. Apprenticeship Simulation makes use of multi-media sources to present realistic cases that the student can work with. The concept is specially designed for teaching subjects which include both tacit and explicit knowledge, such as Enterprise Modelling (EM). As a part of the demonstration, a Case-Based Immersive Learning Environment used for teaching at Stockholm University was shown.
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Reality meets academy in the courses developed by IBM, Tieto, Logica, Accenture and DSV. It is a unique partnership between these companies. The companies will give students entering the job market a clear understanding of how it is “out there”. This shortens the gap from being a student to becoming a productive coworker.
SEClab invites students, researchers, practitioners and staff to a Guest lecture by Dr Colin Armstrong, from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia on the theme “Forensic Science and Information Systems”.
Time: June 16 at 16.00
Place: Lecture hall C, Forum, Isafjordsgatan 39
Background: Dr Colin Armstrong’s research in forensic science at the University of Western Australia encompass the design and evaluation of a meta model for organizing and managing forensic evidence processes. From the statement “Evidence is the basis for our decision making” meaning that evidences have to be seen in relation to the law, the forensic science is in main focus; forensic scientists use scientific processes ultimately to produce data eventually to become evidence. However, the understanding of law enforcers and the judiciary of what constitutes evidence is not necessarily the same as that of forensic scientists. Within information science the understanding is that raw data organized with some purpose in mind brings information – and parts of that information may in turn be used for decision making. So, in order to form processes adequate for organizing scientific data into information and further into sound basis for decision making within a court specific, detailed and voluminous data must be collected and undergo various systematic procedures. The vision is to have an information system for collecting, processing, storing, maintaining and presenting the decision making material. This would call for at least some common references, vocabularies and definitions to use; however, even though we live in a globalised world, laws and legal systems differ and the area suffers from few and scattered policies, standards and taxonomies to be applied for the management of forensic evidence. Therefore, this piece of research potentially breaks new ground s and contributes with widening – yet structuring – the field of knowledge of forensic science.
The main research question answered is What necessary components are needed for such a tactical management model. The sub questions answered during the cause of the research concern What are the underlying criteria or attributes, How can these be organized into a tactical model, and How do the components of the model interrelate to contribute to the whole model.
About the lecturer: Dr Colin Armstrong is presently a lecturer at the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, where he lectures and advises master students in information security and forensics. Prior to his university career he was the communication specialist with the Flying Doctors in Australia. He holds a BSc in Communication and IT from Edith Cowan University, a Master by Research in Information Systems from Curtin University and a PhD from the Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Western Australia.
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The Global IT Management (GITM) course is in my opinion one of the important courses that together with Strategic Management of IT course needs to be part of a master program in information systems/information technology. In 2003 I have designed the Global IT Management course (7.5 ECTS) that has run for the first time in 2004 in the master programs in Internetworking and Engineering and Management of Information Systems at KTH. The GITM course is one that is looking to enhance students’ knowledge in information and communications technologies (ICT) support in globalization and companies that operates in a global business environment. In 2004 I had 72 students enrolled in the Global IT Management course and in the next years the students’ number have continue to increase. Now in 2010 I have 86 students enrolled in GITM course that are coming from different master programs at KTH and Stockholm University plus exchange students.
From the experience of former students in Global IT Management course we have found that for most of them this course was an opportunity and challenge to enhance their knowledge in the IT Management area and develop new skills about how to deal with different cultures by working in multicultural teams. As a result many students have mentioned me that the GITM course have been a usefully experience for them. In GITM course the students are doing team projects using as case studies different global companies. The team project is an important assessment component in this course and in 2008 I have performed a research about the contribution of the team project on students’ learning in GITM course. In case you are interested in the results of this research please read my paper published in Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2010, Volume 111, 28-40, http://www.springerlink.com/content/jq774062hn586554/
During the last 7 years I have continuous improved the GITM course in his content and organization. I have also tried in all these years to bring different guest speakers from IT industry in GITM course in order to share their experience with my students. As a result of the positive impact that this course has had in enhancing students’ knowledge in IT Management a former KTH student Robin Zimmermann (who has worked at IBM Sweden and now he is working at Accenture) has offered me the opportunity to establish a collaboration with IT professionals from IBM. The colaboration with IBM will consists in guest lectures offered in GITM course 2010 and in co-supervision of master theses in different topics of IT Management. Furthermore I hope that the present collaboration with IBM will be extended also for the Strategic Management of IT course given in Spring 2011.
In case you are having an interest in the content of the lectures given by IT professionals from IBM in Global IT Management course 2010 you are welcome for attending them. The dates, hours and topics of the lectures are following below.
2010-11-08, 9.00 – 9.45, Sal B, Forum, Abhishek Sinha (IBM India), Lecture: Organizing IT
2010-11-15, 14.00 -14.45, Sal A, Forum, Abhishek Sinha (IBM India), Lecture: IT strategy
2010-11-17, 9.00 – 9.45, Sal B, Forum, Abhishek Sinha (IBM India), Lecture: Outsourcing and Offshoring of IT
2010-11-19, 14.00 – 14.45, Sal B, Forum, Jan Pettersson (IBM Sweden), Lecture: IBM Global Solution Architecture Repository