In our department, seminar assignment is done at the beginning of the third grade "System Management Seminar 2 (once a week in a year)". First of all, everyone hears about each laboratory's research theme and activities and submits the hope for assignment to interested laboratory. If there are many applicants in same laboratory, the assignment will be decided in the order of GPA up to achievement until the second grade. If you are assigned to this seminar fortunately, you will study the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out "graduation research" of the fourth grade class in this laboratory.

First, let's acquire with presentation skills! If you can’t convey contents of research results and projects well, your own ideas will be ruined. Then, at this seminar, you investigate various expertise in advance and present it at class hours. This picture shows a presentation about "genetic algorithm" by the third grade students.

The lecture in turn is a learning method in which students present expertise each other, and understands it deeply through discussions. Many university laboratories in the world have lectures in turn style.

For example, there are numerous technologies that "optimization" such as genetic algorithms and tabu search, “pattern recognition of images and sounds” such as neural networks, and Fuzzy inference that realizes "decision making" according to certain rules with various features and factors of things. Although it seems difficult technology at first glance, it is a technique that can be implemented by programming without requiring complicated formulas. We will investigate these techniques deeply and understand them.

We aim to build a human-friendly computer system that acquires and understands people's preferences. "Programming" is indispensable for development of these systems. In order to use the computer to the way the human being desires, "programming" is necessary at the current stage.

Maybe, persons who can program to some extent at the initial stage have experience in some programming or developing system in practice. If you don’t study programming hard such as "thinking by yourself and writing source code in practice" or "searching for a bug by yourself", you never acquire the programming ability.
In this seminar, we will assign the C language programming exercises at the beginning of System Management Seminar 2 to acquire programming abilities. Performing the programming work, you acquire the ability to create source code using structures and pointers functions of C language. This picture illustrates during programming work at System Management Seminar 2.
In this seminar, "programming" in system development is positioned as "Tool". In other words, at this seminar, you must be able to use program "perfectly" like tennis player's racket and carpenter's hammer. If you can build programs to some extent in C language, you will be easier to understand various programming languages such as Android and iPhone / iPad applications, and even Web applications using PHP and ASP.NET.
Let's acquire the programming skills in this lecture!