BIS 4407 Term Outline

Week	Lecture	Seminar	Reading
1	Week 1 Introduction	Seminar 1: Cell Assemblies, CABot and passing the Turing Test	Cresswell Chpt. 6
2	Scientific Method	Seminar 2: Researchers in EIS	Cresswell Chpt 9, and the Scientific Method Wiki
3	Writing		Open
4	Literature Search		Cresswell Chpt. 2
5	Giving Talks
6	Knowledge Representation 1		Brachman Chpts. 1-4
7	AI Methods
8	Invited Speaker (Ian Mitchell)
9	Statistics		Research Methods Knowledge Base
10	Expert Systems		Brachman Chpt. 7
11	Qualitiative Methods 1		Cresswell Chpt. 10
12	Good Examples of KM Research		Papers from the lecture (online)
13	Cognitive Maps		Buzan's Mindmap book
14	Invited Speaker (Franco Raimondi)
15	Questions and Answers
16	Knowledge Representation 2		Brachman Chpts. 8-10
17	Coursework Support		Read someone else's coursework draft.
18	Mixed Methods		Cresswell Chpt. 11
19	Qualitative Methods 2
20	Models
21	Knowledge Representation 3		Brachman Chpts. 11 and 12
22	Planning		Brachman chpt. 15
23	Invited Speaker
24	Conclusion	Seminar 24: Coursework Support	No Reading