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Introduction to Software Engineering Rules An attendance register will be kept After 3 minutes you are late Mobile phones must be off or silent Reasonably smart dress Who is the Lecturer? ROBERT GLEDHILL I am originally from the north of England, near Manchester I have travelled around a lot though! Speed and Understanding Speaking speed Accent Difficult or technical words Background Chemistry Final year project was in computers Testing a new operating system Writing a chemical simulation* code Program parallelised* over a network Drawing the system in 3d Simulation: Using a computer to predict how a model system will change over time. For example, the system may be physical or chemical Parallelised Multiple copies of a program working on one problem, possibly on different computers Research Looking at a disease called CJD Required simulations of a large molecule Problem: couldnt make sense of the results! Answer: several years developing mathematical tools, checking and implementing them Also required new data visualisation tools* Visualisation tools Programs for drawing pictures of data to help human beings understand what the data is saying Web Teaching Project Looking at the disease malaria In charge of software engineering and delivery Many elements: visualisation, simulation, database design, software specification, programming, managing web designers Database Some database researchers had created a new, experimental database system They wanted it testing on large datasets We were happy to break it for them! Computer Animation Used in films, adverts, games etc. It is very difficult to hand-animate in 3d One shortcut is to use physics Applying robotics artificial intelligence (AI) to the physical model makes it better still Games Industry I worked on a number of different game projects, both in the UK and the USA The industry is like a huge steam engine that burns banknotes instead of coal When everything works out, the companies make a huge profit... ... but