Report tasks for Design and Analysis on Information Systems.

Select two problems and answer them. Email the report to tokuyama@dais.is.tohoku.ac.jp  by February 1.


1. Watch the NHK TV series "Next World" (unfortunately in Japanese) (broadcasted on Jan 3, but you can watch by NHK on demand or Youtube now),
and discuss how to make the human life happy in the world where artificial intelligence exceed human intelligence in many tasks.  
Also give your idea how you contribute in the "next world".
 
2. Give an improved analysis of the "red-black card gambling" if we would like maximize "expected profit" instead of "sure profit (about 90,000 yen)" 
if the next card will be drawn randomly from the deck of the rest of cards.  You may write a computer program for it.

3. Select any topic (other than the one given above) in the lecture, and explain its outline.

4. Find a mathematical or algorithmic problem useful in information science, and describe how it contribute to the information society.
If possible, give your own idea (not necessarily theoretical one) to find better solutions for it.    

5. Explain about your own research topic in graduate study, and discuss its relation to information science (if any).