Transformational Technologies for
Biology, Medicine, and Health
HA&S 396A & MEBI 498A, Spring, '09
Course objectives:
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- For each of the four modules (see syllabus):
- Characterize the users discussed in the module, as well as the needs and problems that these users face.
- Describe how the system(s) we studied are designed to meets those needs and solve (some of) those problems.
- Describe why the development of the system is/was multidisciplinary (e.g. outside of the scope of a single field such as computer science).
- Describe at least one key underlying theory behind the design of system(s) studied.
- Demonstrate what the system does with some examples
- Describe how the system pragmatically impacts users.
- Describe some of the open research areas that are addressed (or not!) by the system
- Describe some of the common research themes and issues that apply across more than one of the covered modules.
Last Updated:
March 28, '09
Contact the instructor at: gennari@u.washington.edu