UCSD offering excellent C4ISR Course commencing 13 January 2014

Continuing Education Credits are provided by UCSD for this 27 hour, 9 convening course held on Monday evenings from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, starting 13 January 2014 (with no class on 20 January or 17 February), at the UCSD Extension's University City Center (6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego).  Sign up for this 4 unit course (CSE-40952) on the UCSD Extension website soon, because seats fill up fast.  Those on the waiting list will be notified when a seat becomes available.   

Past guest lecturers have included Dr. Marv Langston the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (C4I & Space), CAPT DJ LeGoff the PEO C4I Program Manager for Tactical Networks, and Mr. Mike Spencer the Deputy Chief Engineer and Director of Integration and Interoperability (DII) of the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Command.
    
Students represent a good cross section of industry and the government, interested in an understanding of Command and Control, tactical and satellite Communications systems capabilities and limitations, Computers and Networks including various aspects of virtualization, Intelligence activities and supporting systems, Surveillance methods and resources, and Reconnaissance platforms capabilities and limitations.  The true power of this course resides within the open dialogue, non attribution, among the students and lecturer.  Many students are experts in their chosen field, and lend their insight and experiences to the learning environment.

The class text is Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence.  Discussion of his position on Artificial Intelligence and why truly intelligent machines are certainly possible, but not by continuing down the current path of building ever faster computers with more processing power and more storage running sophisticated programs.