Technical Topics

• Computer Science Seminar Topics for CSE, I.T

  We provide a big collection of latest 2014-2015 Computer Science Presentation and Seminar Topics Topics, Advanced Research Topics with PPT and abstract based on Technical IEEE Papers and journals on recent technologies for Computer Science (CSE), Information Technology (I.T), MCA, MS, B.E, B.Tech, MSc, BSc students with free download. Presentations are provided at the end of each article for free download.
  Colleges and universities are partnering with MOOC institutions, such as Coursera and edX, to afford their students and other do-it-yourself learners the opportunity to supplement their education. See what these five names in MOOCs are doing to enhance the online learning experience: Portable Camera-Based Assistive Text and Product Label Reading From Hand-Held Objects for Blind Persons Reading is obviously essential in today’s society. Printed text is everywhere in the form of reports, receipts, bank statements, on medicine bottles, etc. Optical aids, video magnifiers, and screen readers can help blind users and those with low vision to access documents. There are few devices that can provide good access to common hand-held objects such as product packages, and objects printed with text such as prescription medication bottle. One of the devices we are going to discuss in this computer science seminar topic is Portable Camera-Based Assistive Text and Product Label Reading From Hand-Held Objects for Blind Persons.

• How To Start Integrating Coding Into Project Based Learning

  True Project Based Learning (PBL) challenges students to acquire deeper knowledge of a concept by establishing connections outside their classroom. According to the research on PBL, the main tenets are to create real world connections, develop critical thinking skills, foster structured collaboration, motivate student driven work, and enable a multifaceted approach.
  Similarly, coding applies all of these core tenets as programs require logical thinking, team work, a variety of tools, and – most importantly – perseverance on the part of the student. Consider the potential of applying the challenges of coding to the proven successful tenets of PBL.
  
  
  PBL Tenet #1: Create Real World Connections Coding Application: Find a solution to a problem by creating an App or Website
  Douglas Kiang, AP Computer Science teacher at Punahou School, used PBL in his classroom to encourage his students to connect with their community. He challenged them to create an iPhone App that fulfilled a need in order to model what happens in real world programming.
  While one student created an app that assisted people to find a parking spot during the campus carnival, a few student athletes collaborated on an app for a local physical therapist to show videos and directions for rehabilitative exercises. Another student even worked with a parent to create an app for autistic children to teach counting, and it has taken off on the App Store! Whether it is an internal, local, or global problem, students strived to solve a problem and coding offered a method for finding a solution.
  PBL Tenet #2: Foster Critical Thinking Coding application: Coding requires a series of logical steps
  Much like PBL migrates learning away from worksheets and reports, coding is becoming less about the syntax, or programming language, and more about the logic needed to layout the solution. Some programs, such as Scratch, do not even use a language but rather have students drag-and-drop widgets into a specific order to make a program. The more important aspect of a coding project is that the students gain the bigger picture of how their program can potentially solve the problem at hand rather than master the specific coding languages.
  To accomplish this, Douglas ran his course like a startup company, and helpd his classes as meetings. At meetings, people talk to each other, share data, help solve problems, plan, coordinate, ask questions, and show their work. They took ideas from industry and laid out the deadlines in project management Gantt charts in order to logically think through their coding projects. Students completed their programs not based on a syllabus, but through they process they developed themselves.

• Smart Glasses : Seminar Report and PPT

  Smart glasses are wearable devices that display real-time information directly in front of users’ field of vision by using Augmented Reality (AR) techniques. Generally, they can also perform more complex tasks, run some applications, and support Internet connectivity. This paper provides an overview of some methods that can be adopted to allow gesture-based interaction with smart glasses, as well as of some interaction design considerations. Additionally, it discusses some social effects induced by a wide-spread deployment of smart glasses as well as possible privacy concerns. Head-worn displays (HWD) have recently gained significant attention, in particular thanks to the release of a temporary version of Google Glass. Moreover, the anticipation of the commercial launch of Google Glass1 in the upcoming months and the fresh news that Facebook, Inc. acquired Oculus Rift2 increased the popularity of such devices even further. The trend of wearable device purchases is importantly growing and some business analysts forecast more than 20 million annual sales of Google Glass in 2018. Furthermore, researchers have been already studying and investigating HWD for several years. As a consequence, it is important to give an overview of different methods that could be used to interact with smart glasses and, above all, analysing privacy concerns and identifying the current and potential social implications related to these devices has a great significance at this point.
  The main purpose of smart glasses is to provide users with information and services relevant for their contexts and useful for the users to perform their tasks; in other words, such devices augment users’ senses. In addition, they allow users to do basic operations available on today common mobile devices such as reading, writing e-mails, writing text messages, making notes, and answering calls. Therefore, although most of the usage of smart glasses is passive for the users, i.e. reading content on the little screen of the device, active interaction with such devices is fundamental to control them and supply inputs. In fact, users need ways to ask smart glasses for instance to open a particular application, answer something they need to know, insert content for emails, messages or input fields, or to control games.
  Designing interaction techniques
  Before presenting how users can interact with smart glasses, it is worth mentioning the main aspects that have to be taken into account during the design process of such techniques. As for technical characteristics, a gesture recognition system for HWD should ideally be very accurate, i.e. able to distinguish fine shapebased gestures, insensitive to daylight, as small as possible, consume low power, and be robust in noisy and cluttered environment that are typical conditions in everyday life scenarios. As far as user experience is concerned, the physical effort required to users to interact with the devices is relevant, as well as easiness of use and encumbrance of the device.

• Six reasons you should be learning to code right now

  TEmbarking on something completely outside of your comfort zone can seem an exciting prospect for some. However, it can also seem incredibly daunting, especially if you’re just starting out. For anyone who feels as if coding is their calling, reed.co.uk has a number of courses and resources available to help turn your dream into a reality.
  1. To improve your career prospects
  First and foremost, learning to code will help get you hired. Almost every industry imaginable is crying out for developers, and even if you don’t want to go into programming full time, adding a metaphorical string to your bow could make all the difference when it comes to your application. Just think about the technology you come into contact with on a daily basis.
  Everything from the way we do our shopping and the way we check our banking, right through to the way we communicate with each other on a day-to-day basis, is written in code. Code which the vast majority of us can’t read, write or understand.
  2. To earn more money
  If you’re interested in earning the big bucks, you can do a lot worse than learning to code. Although starting wages won’t necessarily be that lucrative, after a few years of honing, your skills will quickly become invaluable. Invaluable, and in high demand. In fact, experienced Developers can command salaries well in excess of £50,000, especially if they have a good knowledge of a number of different coding languages.
  3. To build something you love
  Ever wanted to make your own website, but lacked the skills to make it look the way you want? Coding can help with that. With learning to code becoming ever more accessible, even those who don’t want to go into development full time can reap the benefits. It might be building the perfect page for your business or simply adding some style to your blog. Either way, having the knowhow necessary to start your own site from scratch could make all the difference. And it doesn’t stop there. If you’ve got an idea for an app or a mobile game you think could take off, you can finally stop making excuses and actually start building.
  4. To help the kids with their homework
  From 2015 kids across the country will start learning to code. Not only does that mean that the workforce of the future will have a much more detailed understanding of how technology works, it also means that words like Java, Ruby and Python will start creeping their way into your household, and worse – their homework. Forget fractions and French, having a basic knowledge of coding will help ensure your children are well equipped to ace their exams. At the very least, it will mean you actually know what they’re talking about.
  5. To improve your problem solving skills
  ‘I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think’ – Steve Jobs If you’ve never considered coding, it can be easy to form misconceptions. However, rather than being a set of indecipherable symbols only understood by techies, you might be surprised to learn than it’s much more about breaking down and evaluating problems than coming up with complex algorithms that 99% of people won’t understand.
  6. To improve communication with your co-workers
  Finally, even if you’re don’t think coding is something you want to take up at a high level, it could actually help you in your own job. Not only will it mean you can communicate with your colleagues more effectively, it will also help you understand the complexities of a piece of work, and more thoroughly understand what’s being done to overcome any issues you might face. At the very least it will give you something to talk about if you’re stuck at lunch with Alan from IT.