Subject matter

Considering computer science as both a stimulus and a response in the evolution of "how we live, learn, and work with the net", the Internet can be viewed as the underlying infrastructure for the converging IT, telecommunications, and media industries. Even scientific disciplines increasingly shape up a web: formerly considered a mere service discipline for engineering, life sciences, and humanities, computer science now learns and imports from the partner disciplines, becomes an adult peer in a growing mesh. The Internet goes mobile and multimedia, goes business, broadcast and personal - and faces the Post-PC era of ubiquitous computing. In a world where the complexity of the "made" reaches up to the complexity of the "born", truely dependable systems become ever less realistic.

We need novel approaches to connectivity, adaptability, sociability, scalability, and usability of global computing in order to make computers disappear in and interweave with our environment, and in order to move humans back to the center. As humans "telecooperate" with one another and with their (computer-augmented) environment in this vision, "tele" alludes both to the fact that humans cooperation is intentional (and supported as such) and to the mediating role of maybe invisible technology, but not to physical remoteness - which should matter less and less.

Exercises

starting March 3

Group 1: Thu, 2pm - 330pm, RR20
Group 2: Thu, 345pm - 515pm, RR20
Group 3: Thu, 2pm - 330pm, RR21
Group 4: Thu, 345pm - 515pm, RR21
Group 5: Thu, 530pm - 7pm, RR19
Group 6: Thu, 530pm - 7pm, RR21

Communication

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Lecture and Exercises

Final Exam

Date: 30.06.2005
Time: 11.15 - 12.45
Place: HS A
Registration: https://wwws.uibk.ac.at/zid/basicauth/validate.pl

Alternative exam: 29.09.2005, 11:15am, HS A

Final Mark

There is a written exam on the lecture content at the end of the semester. We offer exams at three different dates for students to choose. Students are not required to attend the lecture, but they must show up in the exam and in the tutorials. Tutorial marks are based on attendance and the performance in the exercises.

Lecturer

Axel Polleres
axel.polleres@deri.org

Time

Thursdays, 11am - 1pm
HS A