1997 QUT Handbook

ucts and services. Students gain a theoretical understanding of
the transport protocols for internetworking via repeaters, bridges,
routers, and gateways; and also an understanding of the application
services and protocols provided by different LANs.
Courses: IT20 Prerequisites: ITB422 or ITB246
Corequisites: ITB522
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: ITN520, ITB521
■ ITB541 TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES
An examination of high speed networks, satellite communications,
fibre optics and wireless LANs; performance and
optimisation of network links and the interconnection of telecommunications
equipment based on the international standards:
ISDN, BISDN, ATM.
Courses: IT20 Prerequisites: ITB530
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: ITN540
■ ITB542 NETWORK PROGRAMMING
Students require a detailed understanding of the processes
involved in the design, development, programming and management
of communications software. The interprocess communications
on various systems and the necessary practical
skills to utilise the concepts of network programming enable
them to set up network facilities, develop and modify network
code, and ethics of network programming. Topics include:
streams, sockets, remote procedure calls.
Courses: IT20, IT35/IT40
Prerequisites: ITB422 or ITN410 or ITB246
Corequisites: ITB522
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB543 DATA SECURITY
Information security within an organisation deals with the
managerial and technical aspects involved in protecting the
information. At the completion of this unit, students are able
to demonstrate knowledge of the factors which impact upon
the availability, integration and confidentiality of data; make
a realistic assessment of the needs for data security in an organisation;
discuss the implications of security decisions on
the organisation’s information systems.
Courses: IT20, IT35/IT40
Prerequisites: ITB520 or ITN510 or ITB510
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB544 PROJECT 1
Students, either individually or in small groups, undertake a
significant project, relevant to the needs of industry, government
or a research area, carried out under the supervision of a
staff member whose interests lie in the field of the project.
Before work commences on the project, student(s) and supervisor
must agree on the topic of the project and the scope of
the work to be attempted.
Courses: IT20
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 72 credit points from
the Data Communications major
Credit Points: 12
■ ITB548 INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOLOGY
This unit covers classical ciphers; modern symmetric ciphers;
public key ciphers; practical cryptology.
Courses: IF23, IT20, IT40, MA34, SC30, SC60
Prerequisites: MAB177 or MAB493 or MAB620
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB549 ERROR CONTROL & DATA
COMPRESSION
This unit covers data compression techniques; introduction to
block codes; convolutional codes; cyclic codes and Reed-Solomon
codes; coding techniques and applications.
Courses: IF23, IT20, IT40, MA34, SC30, SC60
Prerequisites: MAB177 or MAB493 or MAB620
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB742 PRINCIPLES OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
The foundations of artificial intelligence, the principles of AI
programming, and an introduction to Prolog. The history, scope,
and limits of AI as well as its social, ethical, legal, and philosophical
implications. Common application areas and case studies
in AI, in particular those of search and control techniques,
and control strategies involved in heuristic search. An introduction
to knowledge-based and expert systems, in particular
the architecture of knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition
and the building of knowledge-based systems.
Courses: ED50
Corequisites: A tertiary programming unit
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB820 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING
The application of technologies in a teaching context; the use
of writing and publishing software; graphics design software;
numerical software tools; personal and project management
tools; communications technologies and computer peripherals
used in the production of computer-generated materials.
Courses: CN41, CN43
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ITB821 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
The role of computer and information systems in the context
of the building and construction industries. It includes an overview
of the terminology and concepts of computing, communications,
and information systems technologies and an introduction
to computer applications packages such as microcomputer
spreadsheets software.
Courses: CN31, CN32, CN33
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ITB840 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING
Examination of the computer as a processor of information
and provides an overview of computers, computer organisation,
systems software, programs and the range of programming
languages; the design of algorithms using PASCAL.
Courses: MA34, SC30
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ ITB841 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING
Introduction to technical computer programming: teaching
programming techniques for the writing of correct and efficient
programs for limited but typical engineering problems;
using programming techniques to write, modify and enhance
program applications on selected computer systems using the
PASCAL programming language.
Courses: CE42, EE43, EE44, IF56, ME45, ME46
Corequisites: CEB184
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB842 C PROGRAMMING UNDER UNIX
Introduction to programming and to ANSI C as a tool for
solving problems, particularly engineering and scientific
problems. Programs will be developed and run on the UNIX
systems. Topics under UNIX include the shell, the file system,
processes, and utilities. topics under ANSI C include
functions, arrays, pointers and numeric processing. Topics
under program development include modular and structured
programming, abstraction, debugging and reasoning about
programs.
Courses: ME45, ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB843 COMPUTING
An introduction to computer programming and covers simple
applications in the BASIC language. Topics include: computer
utilisation; organisation; hardware; software; data organisation;
information storage retrieval; computer systems; programming
in BASIC; problem-solving; analysis of numerical
and non-m\numerical problems; introduction to FORTRAN;
use of WordPerfect, VPPlanner and dBaseIII Plus.
Courses: CH32, SC30
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ ITB844 PROJECT
Students in IF25, either individually or in small groups, undertake
a substantial project relevant to the needs of industry
and designed to provide insight into industrial requirements.
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