MacLearning - iTunes U

Many institutions teach single, large project courses with clients from industry as capstone courses for their engineering curricula. These classes are a good way of teaching industry relevant software engineering practices to students. The students work on a real problem posed by a real client, and develop and deliver a solution within a single semester. Mostly these classes are taught at the senior and master level. In this talk, Computer Science Professor, Bernd Bruegge will discuss how at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) they teach this type of class at the sophomore level, using XCode as the development platform and iOS devices as the target platform.

The "social web" has become the nexus of collaboration and discovery, but how supportive are the existing tools at making leads to scientific discovery? Mendeley co-founder, Jan Reichelt, will show Mendeley's approach to connecting scholars with information and by doing so unlocking it. Mendeley (www.mendeley.com) is the world's largest research collaboration platform, with more than 750,000 researchers and academics and more than 60 million research papers indexed in Mendeley's public web catalog.