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Bachelor Seminar(Vertiefung)

SS 2010

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Bachelor Seminar (Vertiefung), SE 2

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Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel and Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Switzerland

Link:http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/teaching

Contact person: Ruzica Piskac (ruzica.piskac@epfl.ch)

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Seminar Organization

• Seminar (SE2) for Bachelor Students• Language: English• Time: a blocked course, Fri 11.06. 15.00 - 19.00

Sat 12.06. 08.00 - 19.00• Location: 3W03• seminar will consist of student presentations and invited speakers• Agenda will depend on number of presentations• Final assignment: Paper• 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes interactive discussion• Grade requirements: successful participation assessment

(a presentation and a written seminar paper)

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Submission Details

• Presentation

– Students need to submit their presentation one week in advance to the final seminar presentation

– Send per e-mail

• Written Paper

– Students need to prepare 10 pages paper– Papers have to formatted in Springer LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-

72376-0

Hard deadline: 30.6.2010 – no extensions

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Topic

Sources:

Movies: eXistenZ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/ Vanilla Sky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/ Strange Days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ Welt am Draht http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/

Books: Welt am Draht is based on a book Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye Stanislav Lem: Der futorologische Kongreß

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What is the reality?  or Is a virtual reality also a reality?

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TODO for you

• First (pre)-steps: 1) five sources -> everybody pick a topic (if there are more than 5 people, build 5 groups)2) watch your movie (or read your book) 3) write two page summary as a group and in this summary identify several  topics that were raised by the movie or book (those topics have to be on the given theme "reality vs virtual reality") 4) send this summary to ruzica.piskac@epfl.ch by 04.04.2010 the latest 5) these topics that you identify will be your 'real' topic (if approved)

• Also send a short email to the mailinglist and ruzica.piskac@epfl.ch immediately and introduce yourself:

Example:

"My name is XY and I am a third semester bachelor student. I will work on the topic of movie "Vanilla Sky"  "

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Some tips

• Start to work immediately.• We want you to think and understand your topic.• Do not go to the presentation without having understood what you are

presenting.• This is a seminar where you learn how to do scientific work. • If you have questions / problems – do not hesitate to ask me. • DO NOT copy!• Whenever you cite somebody, cite properly.• When you use work of somebody else, re-phrase and summarize in

your own words and cite properly. • Have a look how proper citations look like (on the STI website there are

plenty of papers)

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