Discovering a strategy for professional communication with new frontiers through classroom presentation

Abstract

In daily life, we sometimes find it hard to communicate with people from cultures not our own. In the field of Computer Science (CS), however, we have been able to discuss our research with pictures and program source code. As opportunities of attending and presenting papers at international conference are increased, we found that many recent hot topics belong to multiple fields, including those considered to be outside the traditional computer science field, such as biology, business, etc. This research trend requires us to have a technique of quickly acquiring subject matter knowledge of fields that are unfamiliar to us, and to discover a strategy for clearly explaining our key idea to non-experts. This technique and strategy will promise smooth cooperation with experts in other fields and will be a key issue for our successful research across current and new areas of studies. We present a list of obstacles that CS students face when trying to communicate along these new frontiers, and we discuss a strategy for professional communication through classroom presentation.