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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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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IEEE Board of Directors

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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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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 ?