IEEE Technical English Program
Moshe KamPramod AbichandaniChristopher Lester
IEEE Educational Activities
St. Petersburg, Russia
3 October, 2009
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Why are we here?
The Russia NW Section has organized a successful Technical English Program
The IEEE Educational Board is supporting the program Through workshops to students which
provide an opportunity to engage in English-only conversation on technical matters
This is the fourth time EAB works on such a program
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Short History of the Transportation Method
Proposed by French Mathematician Gaspard Monge in 1781
Solved by Russian mathematician Leonid Kantarovich (St. Petersburg, 1912- Moscow, 1986)
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Leonid Kantarovich Russian mathematician and economist Theory and techniques for the optimal allocation
of resources
Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975
Kantorovich was given the task of optimizing production in a plywood industry in the USSR
Came up (1939) with the mathematical technique now known as linear programming (advanced by George Dantzig)
The Mathematical Method of Production Planning and Organization
The Best Uses of Economic Resources
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Tjalling Koopmans, was given "for their contributions to the theory of optimal allocation of resources."
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The Least Cost Method
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Cost: 6x30 + 7x10 + 2x20 + 1x20 + 9x25 = 535
Feasible, not necessarily optimal
Worse than the Northwest Corner approach
Demonstrates that being least cost at every step does
NOT guarantee being least cost overall
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Real vs. artificial neurons
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Artificial Neurons
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Who is EAB?
One of the major Boards of IEEE Serving the public as well as 380,000
members Devoted to Education Operates worldwide on pre-university,
university-level and continuing education Active in accreditation of educational
programs
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Who is here from EAB
Volunteers – Pramod Abichandani, Christopher Lester, Moshe Kam
Drexel University Staff Members – Douglas Gorham
and Charles Hickman Educational Activities Department
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Who else is with us? Volunteers from Regions 8 and 9 who are
interested in starting a TEP in their own Sections Croatia France Hungary Iraq Jordan Lebanon R. Macedonia Morocco Nigeria Portugal
Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates United States Uruguay
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How will we work today?
We are organized in groups based on tables Each table has a moderator Each table is invited to select a name
We suggest a name of a city We will engage in a number of activities
Hopefully these will be interesting Each table will get “points” for performance At the end of the day we will have a winner and
a runner-up It will all be conducted in ENGLISH
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English only, please
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Activity Start End Moderator
Welcome 9:00 9:15 Moshe Kam
Activity 1: Puzzles
9:15 10:15 Pramod Abichandani
Coffee Break 10:15 10:30
Activity 2: Hand Recognition
10:30 12:00 Christopher Lester
Agenda
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Activity Start End Moderator
The IEEE student branch
13:00 13:15 Pramod Abichandani
Activity 3: Identify the Mystery Person
13:15 14:00 Moshe Kam
Activity 4:Ethics debate
14:00 15:15 Moshe Kam
Coffee Break 15:15 15:30
Activity 5: Identify the Stolen Painting
15:30 16:30 Moshe Kam
Final results and adjournment
16:30 16:50 Douglas Gorham
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Activity Related Area of Practice
Puzzles Logic
Hand Recognition
Biometrics, decision theory
Identify the Mystery Person
History of science and technology
Ethics debate Ethics and professionalism
Identify the Stolen Painting
Artificial Intelligence
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Activity 1: Puzzles
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Activity 1: Puzzles
Groups of two
Use PUZZLE SOLUTION FORM
Fill in your Table name/number and your own names
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Puzzles Activity Each group solves two puzzles
Work on the simple (short) puzzle first
Group analyzes the problem and provides a written solution on the PUZZLE SOLUTION FORM to table moderator
Group makes itself ready to present to everybody… What the problem was What the solution is
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Activity 2: Biometrics
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General
Work in groups of 4 Use Forms:
BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS form (4 for each person)
CLASSIFYING UNKNOWN SAMPLES form “Unknown sample …. Matches database samples
… and …”
Envelope marked DATA BASE and an envelope marked TESTING SET
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Part 1: get your right hand measured
Measure your own right hand and have three other people measure your own right hand Record all measurements of your right hand
on the four BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS forms that you have received
Do not swap forms with other people! You may want to calculate the mean and
standard deviation of each one of your four measurements
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How do you measure your hand?
Measurement A:From index fingertip to bottom knuckle
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How do you measure your hand?
Measurement B:Width of ring finger, measured across top knuckle
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How do you measure your hand?
Measurement C:Width of palm across four bottom knuckles
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How do you measure your hand?
Measurement D:Width of palm from middle knuckle of thumb across hand
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4 players create a total of 16 samples
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Part 2: create a DATABASE and a TESTING SET
Put the two BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS forms marked DATABASE in the envelope marked DATABASE
Put the two BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS forms marked TESTING SET in the envelope marked TESTING SET
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Database Testing set
4 Samples per participant
2 samples go here2 samples go here
8 samples will accumulate here
8 samples will accumulate here
4 players create a total of 16 samples
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Part 3: create a classification rule
Decide how to deal with a BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS form of unknown source
Create a mathematical and/or logical rule What calculations to perform in order to
associate the unknown-source form correctly with DATABASE samples of the same hand
Test your rule on your group’s TESTING SET and DATABASE
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Part 4: exchange sets with a group at another table
(give them both envelopes and receive from them two envelopes)
Use the rule you have created to associate each sample from the TESTING SET with one (or no) sample in the DATABASE
Use the CLASSIFYING UNKNOWN SAMPLES form to record your answer
When done, submit to moderator
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Measuring a hand
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Activity 3: Name the MysteryPerson
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Activity 3: Name the MysteryPerson
Born in 1601 (or perhaps 1607)Known for his Little Theorem and Last TheoremDied in Toulouse
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Name the Mystery Person
Made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics Developed close collaboration with Blaise Pascal
Born in 1601 (or perhaps 1607)Known for his Little Theorem and Last TheoremDied in Toulouse
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Our Mystery Person is Pierre de Fermat
Made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics Developed close collaboration with Blaise Pascal
Born in 1601 (or perhaps 1607)Known for his Little Theorem and Last TheoremDied in Toulouse
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Activity 3: Name the Mystery Person
Work in groups of 2
Use Identify the Mystery Person – guidelines
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Create a Fact Sheet on the Mystery Person
You were given the biography of a person Keep the identity of the person secret
from people in other tables
Feel free to add biographical facts you are aware of but avoid matters about which you are not perfectly sure
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Decide on a Fact Sheet for your Table
You will be working in groups of 2, to create 10 statements about the mystery person
When you are done preparing your 10 statements, decide with your colleagues which person of the four persons your table has been working on would be most difficult to identify
Use this person for the presentation
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Each table presents the facts orally, one by one, to the rest of the players stops when the identity of the person is
revealed by a person from another table
The table gets more points if its person remains unidentified for a longer period
The table loses points if it makes a wrong guess
Every table is allowed two guesses
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Activity 4: an Ethics Debate
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Activity 4: an Ethics Debate Each table received an article followed by a
question on ethics Background Binary question: Yes or No
Was the municipality ethical in building the polluting factory in the poorest neighborhood in the city?
Discuss the background Discuss the arguments for responding with a
Yes and with a No Appoint a speaker to present the background
and a speaker for each one of the opposing viewpoints
Total of three
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Presentation
Background narrator and two advocates will be selected at random from the two tables that dealt with the same ethical problem
“Points” will be given according to the completeness and elegance of presentation
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Activity 5
Identify the Stolen Painting…
"Poppies near Vétheuil" (1879), by Claude Monet, stolen from a from the Buehrle Foundation museum in Zurich
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Background You are helping a detective who is visiting
galleries and auctions to identify stolen paintings
The detective is trying to be inconspicuous
S/he uses a 10-sentence description of the stolen paintings s/he is searching for …glancing at it from time to time
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We will use two following forms
STOLEN PAINTING QUESTIONNAIRE One for each pair plus one for the whole
table
STOLEN PAINTING DESCRIPTION FORM One for the whole table
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Part 1: create a questionnaire Work in groups of 2 to create 10 questions that
will help identify a painting The answers to these 10 questions will be used to
create a painting description for the detective Should take 20 minutes
Consult with the rest of the group to decide on a single questionnaire submitted by the table
Use the form marked STOLEN PAINTING QUESTIONNAIRE
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Examples
“Is the painting signed by the painter?” Possible answer: the painting is signed by
the painter on the bottom right hand side
“Describe the people in the painting” Possible answer: there are no people in this
painting Possible answer: there are two girls and an
old woman in the painting
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Part 2: use your questionnaire
You will be given a postcard of a stolen painting
Answer the 10 questions you created using the STOLEN PAINTING QUESTIONNAIRE
Use the STOLEN PAINTING DESCRIPTION FORM to record the answers One per table
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Example
1. The painting is rectangular (layout “Landscape”)
2. The painter’s name is signed on bottom left
3. This is clearly an Impressionistic painting
4. This is an indoors scene
5. There is a lot of blue in the background
6. …
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Part 3: Moderators are given painting descriptions from other tables
Each moderator views potentially stolen paintings on display
Using the written description, each moderator identifies the stolen painting described or declares that it is not on display
The moderator’s table gets 50 points for a correct answer
The table that created a description gets 50 points if the description led to a correct answer
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Questions and Comments ?