Trends in Information Technology

Catalog description

This course offers a survey of information technology underpinning information systems in the private and public sectors. It aims to provide students with an overview of advances in information technology of importance to systems design and development. Topics to be covered will be updated each year the course is taught. Current topics would include cloud computing, mobile applications, user interfaces, data analytics, and social networks. The key elements of each of these technologies will be detailed together with examples of their use in existing information systems. The implications of these technologies for future information systems development will also be examined.