Syllabus
Course: The Summer IT Institute
Instructors: Jay Liebowitz, professor in the Carey Business School's
Department of Information Technology, is program
coordinator; various Johns Hopkins full- and part-time
faculty will present.
Course description: Taking place at Hopkins'
Montgomery County Campus June 25-29, the institute is
offered to students from area high schools who have
completed their freshman year. This is the first time the
program is being offered. Hopkins faculty will give
presentations in the morning, followed by afternoon
labs.
Topics:
Artificial Intelligence: Liebowitz discusses AI
applications, and students will develop an expert system
prototype as an advisory system to emulate human
thinking.
Information Security: How secure are today's
computer and network systems? David Vargas, president of
Vargas Advanced Technologies Group and an instructor in
information technology, discusses information security
techniques.
Data Mining: How do you find hidden patterns in
large masses of data? William Agresti, professor of
information technology, discusses how organizations are
using data mining to their advantage.
Knowledge Management and Social Networking:
Liebowitz discusses knowledge-sharing techniques, with
special emphasis on social networking analysis.
Bioinformatics: Patrick Cummings, senior program
chair; Kristina Obom, associate program chair; and Bob
Lessick, lecturer, all of the Krieger School's Bioinformatics
and Biotechnology program, talk about drug discovery,
human genomics, and scientific visualization.
— CP