DIGIB302-24B
(NET)
Digital Business
Technology
Trends
CONVENER
Dr. Philip Jiang
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• Philip Jiang
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• Lecture & Workshop Session
• Monday 3 PM – 5 PM MSB.0.27 / MSB.0.26
• Online 3 PM – 5 PM Link to Zoom available on Moodle
• Office hours
• Monday 9 AM – 10 AM MSB.4.16
Jul-24
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No textbooks for this course.
Textbooks and Technical papers and case studies will be
Papers provided.
The final assessment will be conducted
through online quizzes with multiple-
choice questions about the topics and
technologies discussed in class
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Paper Highlights – Digital Technology Trends
Smart
Blockchain NFT
contract
Machine
Cryptography AI
Learning
Internet of
E-Commerce
Things
Blockchain (5)
NFT (5)
Online Discussions
IoT/Wearables
(5)
Smart Contract
(10)
Practical Machine
Assessments
Learning (10)
Encryption(10)
Quizzes Multiple Choice
(15)
Project
Presentation (20)
Group Project Project Report
(20)
Jul-24 7
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Week 1: Agenda
• Introduction to the Paper.
• Briefly Explain different technologies covered in the paper.
• Describing the software tools that will be used in the paper.
• Expectations from students
• Explaining mode of operation for the paper.
• Class Representative selection announcement.
• Any other business.
Workshop Session –
Formation of project groups
Week 2: Agenda – Blockchain: Beyond Bitcoin
Online Content
1. Introduction to Blockchain
2. Blockchain alternatives– Tangle and Hashgraph
3. Attributes of Blockchain algorithms
4. Different Blockchain algorithms
5. Applications of Blockchain Algorithms
6. Challenges for Blockchain Algorithms
Workshop Session
1. Blockchain Simulation Game.
Assignment: Online Discussion 1
Compare existing blockchain algorithms and suggest ways to make them
environment friendly.
Week 3: Smart Contracts
Online Content
1. What are smart-contracts
2. Key attributes of smart-contracts
3. Applications based on smart-contracts
4. Future use-cases of smart-contracts
5. Limitations of smart-contacts
Workshop Session
Developing No-code smart-contract
Assignment: Practical 1
Submit a no-code smart contract for a specific business use case.
Week 4: Agenda – NFTs – For non-artists
Online Content
1. What is DeFi - Decentralized finance ?
2. What are NFTs?
3. Basic tenets of NFTs
4. Some recent action in NFTs.
5. Future use-cases of NFTs.
Workshop Session
No-code NFT generation.
Assignment: Online Discussion 2
Design and discuss a specific use-case of NFT
Week 5: Cryptography
• What is Cryptography?
• Different types of encryptions – Public vs Private.
• Different encryption algorithms – AES, DES and RSA.
• Security challenges of 21st Century.
Workshop Session
Encryption/Decryption
Assignment: Practical 2
Create public/private key, encrypt documents, send/receive encrypted
documents.
Week 6: Introduction to Machine Learning
Online Content
1. What is Machine Learning?
2. Different Types of Machine learning Algorithms
3. Natural Language Processing
4. Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms
5. No-code Machine Learning.
Workshop Session –
Sign up for Azure for students.
Week 7 and Week 8
Week 9: Supervised Machine Learning
Algorithms
Online Content
Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms
1. Nearest Neighbor
2. Naive Bayes
3. Decision Trees
4. Linear Regression
5. Support Vector Machines (SVM)
6. Neural Networks
Workshop Session
Supervised Machine Learning using Azure Machine Learning.
Assignment: Practical 3
Using Azure Machine Learning built a ML model using supervised or unsupervised algorithms for a business
use case.
Week 10: Unsupervised/Reinforcement
Machine Learning Algorithms
Online Content
Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms
1. Clustering
2. Association Rules
3. Q-Learning
4. Temporal Difference (TD)
5. Deep Adversarial Networks
Workshop Session
Unsupervised Machine Learning using Azure Machine Learning.
Week 11: Internet of Things
Online Content
1. What is IoT – Internet of Things ?
2. Basic tenets of IoT
3. IoT , Blockchain, and Machine Learning.
4. Some recent action in IoT.
5. Future use-cases of IoT.
Workshop session
Developing the group project proposal.
Week 11: Wearable Devices
Online Content
1. Smart wearable devices
2. Wearable devices, IoT and Machine Learning.
3. Business Case – smart wearable devices
4. Some recent action in wearable devices
5. Future use-cases of wearable devices.
6. Security challenges
Assignment: Online Discussion 3
Design one business model using wearable devices and challenges associated
with it.
Week 12: More in Ecommerce
• Social Network Service
• Location-based service.
• Extended Reality (XR)
• Augmented Reality (AR)
• Virtual Reality (VR)
• Mixed Reality (MR)
• Future prospects.
• Any other business for the semester.
Week 13 : Group Work
• This week Students will get dedicated time to do their group projects.