CSCI 7000-025 Spring 2020: Pervasive Personalized Intelligence for IoT Systems

Mon and Wed, 4:00-5:15 PM
ECCR 151

Prof. Danny Dig (danny.dig@colorado.edu)
Office: ECCE 1B15 Engineering Center
Phone: (303) 492-1293
Office Hours: right after class

The purpose of this research course is to expose students to seminal topics and recent trends in the field of IoT.

A new era in computing is emerging, marked by the digitalization and connection of many aspects of the physical world. Coupled with advances in AI, highly-connected computing sparks a technological revolution rivaling the industrial revolution in breadth of impact. The next big growth in IoT systems will come from pushing pervasive personalized intelligence to the edge of the network, where latency is critical, and mobility, privacy, and context awareness are essential qualities of the application. This will enable an entirely new class of applications by generating business intelligence that is predictive instead of reactive, thus making processes more efficient and saving time, energy, and money.

In this highly interactive class we will be investigating (i) innovative future use of IoT software systems and (ii) the research technical thrusts that enable the exciting applications of the future. Our exploration will consist of in-class discussions of the literature and team projects that encourage risk taking.

The course will offer an opportunity for students to pursue research-oriented or novel industrial term projects in small teams (2-3 students). Students may pursue any project of their choosing that explores the intersection of IoT systems with one of the following thrusts: ML/AI, SE, PL, Security/Privacy, Human Factors.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• expand student's knowledge more broadly about IoT research & practice
• develop critical thinking abilities by being able to assess the quality of published research and pose new research questions
• practice giving scientific presentations and teaching others
• engage in active learning activities in class, such as research discussions
• practice developing a research or novel-industrial project through all its stages: formulating a research problem, posing research questions, gathering related work, designing a solution, evaluating the solution empirically, writing a research paper
• have fun learning