This Week's Top Link! Papers and information related to Pervasive Systems, Grid computing (look at my other top links)

The newly formed University and College Union (UCU) has reached an agreement with the employers which means that the boycott of marking exams and coursework has been suspended. As one of the MSc AIS/WIM student reps for 2005/06, don't hesitiate to e-mail me with any issues or concerns you have. There are no more meetings between the Course Tutors and Student Reps in this school year, but please contact either the lecturers or me with any issues you may have. To promote contact between students, this is where you will find the student pages, and photos. Proud to be a last updated 7th June 2006

Welcome to my webspace, part of the Birkbeck College website. Please take a while to browse. To comment on any of this work, as it appears, please e-mail me.

These next few links are for my own benefit, but you're welcome to use them too:
(sorry, but the coursework links are password-protected!)

REVISION NOTES

• for 24th May: DIA (Developing Internet Applications) 5 pages, 123KB  
• for 31st May: DWDM (Data Warehousing and Data Mining) 7 pages, 79KB  
• for 2nd June: CIV (Computational Intelligence and Visualisation) 6 pages, 70KB  
• for 8th June: MUC (Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing) 8 pages, 78KB  
• for 9th June: CBSD (Component Based Software Development) 6 pages, 419KB  
• for 12th June: IBIP (Image Based Information Processing) 7 pages, 196KB  
• for 14th June: AA (Advanced Applications) 5 pages, 59KB  
• for 16th June: WWWT (World Wide Web Technologies) 7 pages, 115KB  

CBSD

• CBSD Assignment (to be submitted 25th June 2006)
• Services and Objects Vincenzo D’Andrea and Marco Aiello 7 pages, 102KB
• POJOs in action (check presentations & downloads)
• An article explaining Inversion of control and Dependency Injection
• A beginners guide to Dependency Injection
• The J2EE 1.4 Tutorial from Sun
• On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems Into Modules by D.L.Parnas 6 pages, 80KB
• EJBs: session and entity beans and their lifecycles (from the Sun J2EE tutorial).
• Abstraction, Encapsulation, and Information Hiding and the differences between them
• The difference between objects and components, a discussion in 1999
• Doug McIlroy's speaks of software components, in a 1968 conference in Garmisch, Germany
• CBSD Homepage
• The JBoss Community website
• Tutorial for building J2EE Applications using JBoss and Eclipse
• Past papers: 200480KB, 2003118KB, 2002100KB
• Useful links:
   1. CORBA
   2. EJB
   3. JDBC
   4. J2EE
   5. .NET
   6. Java Web Services
  

KRR ("the Logic Course")

• Week 1 homework: 1 page report 12KB
• Week 2 homework: 3 page report 26KB
• Week 3 homework: 3 page report 82KB
• Week 4 homework: 3 page report 39KB
• Week 5 homework: not submitted
• Week 6 homework: 1 page report 21KB
• Week 7 homework: not submitted
• Week 8 homework: 3 page report 24KB
• The Muddy Children Puzzle 70KB, a sample solution by Jayadev Misra
• Mathematical puzzles from Colorado State University
• Mathematical Fonts for use with Windows XP
  (Mathematica 4.2 fonts courtesy Wolfram Research)
• Proof that 2=1 and other interesting things
• More mathematical proofs
• The Math Forum is a great resource
• A crash course in the Mathematics of Infinite Sets
• Musings on Power Sets

MUC

• Course homepage
• MUC Coursework: Light Sensor and Data Propagation application 32KB
• Charles Walton, the father of RFID
• Very informative GPS tutorial
• EPCglobal Inc homepage read about RFID here
• True Cost of RFID 148KB
• History of RFID 288KB
• website for the TinyOS Open-source operating system
• Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments 916KB
  • Service Discovery 101
  • UDDI Executive White Paper 508KB
  • Context Awareness and Service Discovery for Spontaneous Networking 3.83MB
  • Home Network Security 428KB (Intel Technology Journal 2002 no.4)
• Mark Weiser's article introducing the term 'Ubiquitous Computing'
• Applications discussed in the MUC lectures
   1. Active Theatre
   2. Aware Home
   3. Urban Tapestries
   4. Feral Robots
   5. Uncle Roy All Around You
   6. Habitat Monitoring on Great Duck Island
• The Xerox PARC website related to ubiquitous computing
• Example of bluetooth having medical uses (BBC)

IBIP

• Edge detection tutorial
• Introduction to Colour Science
• CIE Colour Space 28 pages, 681KB, a good reference
• An intuitive explanation of Fourier theory
• Introduction to Fourier Transforms for image processing
• Histogram Equalisation
• Image Processing Fundamentals an excellent description of terms, algorithms and techniques
• Demonstrating chromacity and the colour gamut
• Colour FAQ by Charles Poynton, 1997 24 pages, 273KB
• Colour space conversions by Ford & Roberts, 1998 31 pages, 245KB
• Image processing learning resources
• Colour spaces in image and video
• Course Homepage
• Sample images for use with coursework
  
• WRAR Executable
• Week 7 notes (RAR format)

AA

• Fuzzy Logic tutorial
• Introduction to elements of biology handed out in lecture #1

WWWT

• Link Mining: A New Data Mining Challenge Getoor 6 pages, 52KB
• Capture-Recapture: How Many Fish are in the Pond? Johnson 4 pages, 81KB
• User-based and Item-based Collaborative Filtering Approaches Wang, de Vries & Reinders 8 pages, 391KB
• An RSS Tutorial
• Power Laws, an interesting discussion paper
  
  
• LABSHEET 1: 1 page report 11KB and supplementary report 111KB (showing Google listing) (proof of sending 280KB)
• LABSHEET 2: 4 page report 354KB and associated screenshots 344KB (proof of sending 162KB)
• LABSHEET 3: ZIP file 21KB (proof of sending 165KB)
• LABSHEET 4: 1 page report (2-sided) 22KB and associated code and results (ZIP file) 42KB
• LABSHEETS 5-7: 6 page report 25KB and source spreadsheet LABSHEETS5-7.xls 38KB
• LABSHEETS 8-9: 1 page report 16KB (Validate my RSS feed: , and view syndicated RSS feeds: )
  
  
• Web Technologies course homepage
• Search Engines beginner's guide
• Web Usage Mining: Discovery and Applications of Usage Patterns from Web Data Srivastava et al, 2000272KB
• Measuring Web Site Usage: Log File Analysis Haigh, Megarity, 1998
• Why web usage statistics are (worse than) meaningless Jeffrey Goldberg, 1995
• Web Log Analysis for Performance Troubleshooting Alfano, Cassone, Gotta621KB
• Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web Catledge, Pitkow, 1995 53KB
• Want to know how Google knows which links you follow? Read on... (with thanks to Mark Levene)
• An in-depth discussion about PageRank and a PageRank calculator too!
• PageRank Uncovered Ridings, Shishigin, 2002 680KB
• Google's beginnings... The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Brin, Page, 1997 517KB
• View my own RSS feed! (using the JavaScript RSS Box Viewer)
• View my own RSS feed (using the Humbul RSS Viewer)
• View syndicated RSS feeds from other sources
• Create your own RSS Box Viewer
• This is a simple RSS Feed Validator which can be used to validate an RSS feed
• Validate my RSS feed
• See here for assistance in building an RSS feed file
• Generate .htpasswd entries
• Writing htaccess files

DIA

• Developing Internet Applications course homepage
• Example showing how to generate the same output using different techniques (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, XML+XSLT)
• W3C XML Schema Part 0: Primer
• XML/XHTML Validator
• DIA Coursework - working with RSS feeds
• The 100 most-subscribed-to RSS feeds
• JavaScript Tutorials - well worth a visit
• DIA Coursework: khunn01.zip 7KB
• DIA Coursework: The HTML page
• DIA Coursework: RSS Feeds file
• DIA Coursework: 'local' version of RSS Feeds file (when unable to access outside URLs)

CIV

• CIV coursework: Report 69KB and Matlab script 8KB (with data files 5KB)
• Additional work: Report 32KB (with data files 5KB)
• Computational Intelligence & Visualisation course homepage
• Robert Niles has produced an excellent short series of notes about basic statistics
• Donald Simanek has an interesting scientific homepage
• More specifically, Donald Simanek has some stats stuff here
• Pages from the book, How To Clone The Perfect Blonde relating to neural nets and evolutionary algorithms.
• A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis 27 pages, 117KB

DWDM

• Data Warehousing and Data Mining course homepage
• An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology by Chaudhuri & Dayal 10 pages, 117KB
• An Overview of Data Warehouse Design Approaches and Techniques by Gutiérrez & Marotta 10 pages, 71KB
• Handouts and Other resources
• An Analysis of Additivity in OLAP Systems by Homer, Song & Chen 9 pages, 301KB
• Compressing Bitmap Indexes for Faster Search Operations by Woo, Otoo & Shoshani 10 pages, 142KB
• Analytic SQL Features in Oracle9i an Oracle Technical White Paper 32 pages, 179KB
• Providing OLAP to User-Analysts 24 pages, 121KB
  paper by Codd, et al defines twelve rules for OLAP products
• A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks 11 pages, 1,429KB
  seminal paper by Codd, espousing his ideas on relational databases (CACM June 1970)
• An A-Z Index of Oracle SQL Commands
• Coursework 27KB
• Understanding Oracle OLAP Dimensions And Cubes - a bloggers view
• Useful article about the benefits of materialized views with an example

JavaCrash

• Java crash course homepage

Other Links

• Mick Farmer's homepage (lots of useful information here)
• Fun with words!

As an example of what can be done with a little bit of Javascript, and to provide some useful information at the same time, here is information provided, formatted and updated by Sophos. You are welcome to add this information to your website too - simply follow the link at the bottom of the table to take you to the Sophos website:

And a plug for fellow student, Lambert Dean:


(that's Lambert in the middle!)

Some of my favourite external links:

Some of my favourite books from my personal library (I'd recommend them all!):

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