User:AlC

Background

• 30 y/old London male
• AS-level German
• A-levels in English, Biology and Chemistry
• S-level Chemistry
• BA Experimental Psychology
• Working in intellectual property law

Study Goals

Law

• IP law (initial UK & soft IP focus)
  • Develop study materials to support
    • IP101: Background to and rationalisation of IP rights
    • IP102: Types of Rights
    • IP103: Jurisdictions, protocols and agreements
    • IP104: Introduction to Trade Marks
    • IP105: Introduction to Designs
    • IP106: Introduction to Copyright
    • IP107: Introduction to Patents
    • IP201: Trade Marks (UK)
    • IP202: Trade Marks (EU)
    • IP203: Trade Marks (Foreign)
    • IP301: Designs (UK)
    • IP302: Designs (EU)
    • IP303: Designs (Foreign)
    • IP401: Copyright (UK)
    • IP402: Copyright (EU & Overseas)
    • IP503: Patents (Overview only)
    • IP601: Review, state of play and consideration of oddities
  • Finals essays (to be written up at the end of the course)
    • IP701: Overview of current IP debates
    • IP702: IP and pharmaceuticals
    • IP703: IP, technology and software
    • IP704: IP, Internet publishing and user created content
    • IP705: IP and the entertainment industry
    • IP706: Comparing and contrasting IP in North America and Europe
    • IP707: Free IP: systems and players
    • IP708: Future directions and policymakers
  • Possibly, additional essays/articles on specific subjects written for marketing at work and released here subsequently after publication in press

Languages

• Japanese
  • basic phonetics
  • basic reading vocabulary

Computer Science

• Computer hardware, construction and maintenance
  • Project to build a working PC
• Introduction to operating systems
  • Podcast lecture course
• UNIX/Linux installation and administration
  • Choose, install and maintain a Linux distro on the built hardware
  • Choose, install and maintain appropriate FOSS applications software
• Programming
  • Key concepts in computer programming
  • Essential programming languages
    • Python
    • PHP
  • Notes to show understanding of concepts
  • Basic project work to test knowledge and use of languages
• Wired and wireless networking
• LAMP/WAMP development
  • Test project
• Information security
  • Key concepts and issues in information security
  • Emerging trends in information security
• Applications of content management systems
• Further studies
  • Advanced Linux system administration
  • Further programming languages
    • An assault on LISP
  • Further study of information security
    • Forms of attack
    • Case studies of exploits and code examples
    • Personalities within the field

General Studies

• Maintain external wiki site for notes (Jot Spot?)
• Develop list of books and audiobooks to work through
  • Keep notes as appropriate
  • Write short wikified summary at end of each text
  • Try to link ideas from text to text
  • Great Books/Columbia Core reading lists
• Develop and maintain supplemental lists of additional works of interest
  • Short lists by topic
  • Include links
  • Keep notes as appropriate
  • Write short summary at end of each text

Literature

• Keep half an eye on the development of these pages to take up once the general reading is done

Fine Arts

• Keep an eye out for pages like this which may form the basis of studies
• Collect texts and other resources which may be useful in forming the basis of a course if none emerges

Linguistics

• Especially
  • Nuts & bolts basics
  • Evolution of language
  • Semiotics
  • Information theory approaches
  • AI, speech recognition and speech production
  • Artificial languages