Data - From Bits to Databases

Slides based on Brookshear, augmented with a lot of simple material to encourage the students to understand binary numbers!

Silicon Chips and Nano Devices

A look at the Southampton Nanfabrication Centre where electro-photonic research is carried out and the AMD company's industrial processes for creating commercial quantities of silicon computing devices.

Programming & Software

An overview of programming and software development.

Example Presentations

Looking at good examples of public presentations

Simple Analysis of Network Datasets

Linux commands that are generally useful for analyzing data; it is very easy to reduce phenomena such as links, nodes, URLs or downloads, to multiply repeating identifiers and then sorting and counting appearances.

XML revision

Discussions around the kind of decisions that people should make in their exam questions

Personal Learning Environments? or Society’s Learning Environment?

Keynote Presentation at PLE2011. What kind of Web have we got? What kind of Web does a Learning Individual need? What kind of Web does a Learning Society need?

What is the Web?

An introductory lecture on Web Science, taking a kind of devils advocate position by suggesting that the Web is a piece of runaway technology that escaped from research labs prematurely.

Perl Assessment

Perl programming overview for EPrints to support assessment 1

Rich Apps Introductory Lecture

What are Rich Apps? How can students develop their career prospects as well as develop software? This lecture describes the aims and objectives of the course, and gives an outline of the first assessment.