NBA 6120 - [Disruptive Technologies]

Spring. Not offered: 2021-2022. Next offered: 2022-2023. 1.5 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: at least one basic computer science course, or permission of instructor. Priority given to: students with technology of science backgrounds.

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The continued half-century exponential growth of computer power has disrupted many historical business strategies and created new paradigm Shifts with the internet, the world wide web, search engines and mobile phones. Domains such as photography, television, entertainment, and the Computer industry itself have already been transformed and new technologies are emerging for communication, education, tourism as well as Scientific research for medicine, design, and manufacturing to name a few. To predict the disruptive changes of the future, it is best to first understand the technologies and their growth rates themselves. This short seven-week course attempts to explain the fundamentals behind the growth rates with emphasis on pictorial information including Computer graphics, modeling, rendering, simulations, and digital delivery systems. Topics such as social media, government regulations and Ethics will also be discussed.

The professor, whose varied background includes design of the built environment, sustainability, animation, virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) and computer science is now researching perception and the human visual system.