INT3414 - Selected Topics on Technology

Semester II, 2017-2018

Instructor: Tran Quoc Long (tqlong at vnu.edu.vn)

Group: Facebook, Group email

News - Announcement

• Week 01 Report Template
• (16/01) Semester starts: It was nice to meet you all.

Course contents: Multiple new and hot technologies, and most importantly, how to learn new things

• Full stack Web development: MEAN / MERN framework
• Peer-to-Peer digital asset: Blockchain
• Data visualization: D3JS
• Reinforcement learning: OpenAI Gym

Course materials:

• Text books:
• Blockchain Basics - A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps (BLK)
• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web. An Introduction to Designing with D3 (D3)
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (RL)
• Slides and document links to the Internet provided in this page.

Assessment (tentative):

• Studying progress (readings, tutorials, weekly reports, project progress reports): 40%
• Final project (final report and presentation): 60%
• All groups should submit weekly reports that show progress on
  1. Knowledge and skills acquired individually (by each student)
  2. Project issues/challenges met and solution approaches/implementation (by group)

Groups

• Group assignments (Google sheets), please fill in your group members, research topics
• Please post the (read-only) links to weekly reports, project reports to the above Google sheets

Schedule: