Graduation project themes and ideas - 2010

In 2010 I suggested the idea of having multiple graduation projects with a common topic or 'theme'. My hope from this was to:

• Give students the feelings that their projects are part of a larger goal
• Give opportunity for different teams to cooperate and share e.g research papers they found on the topic
• Possibly plant the seed of 'research departments' in FCIS, where multiple MS.c or Ph.D researchers work on common topics instead of each doing an independent topic.

That year I gave a presentation outlining two themes: Arabic natural language processing and Pen computing , and giving a lot of ideas for each theme (and some outside the themes).

Here's the presentation slides, in case they might be useful: Themes for Graduation projects - 2010