HOMEWORK#3

When we will receive virtual data transfer to our brain for learning purpose?

I have designed this question because in movie Matrix they have something in their brain and they can learn anything in mil second through inserting something into their brain(just like USB flash driver but directly to our brain) . And I thought May be in reality people might receive data or may be one day it will become things that we perceive things in our life. 
first attempt 2800, 2500, 2450, average was 2500
second attempt 2500, 2890, 2650. average was 2650.

2. Read up on the Delphi method on the Web (or the library, if you remember what those are - they still have useful stuff not available on-line!). Explain how the process that we went through in class differs from the process as described in the sources you found.

Delphi Method is is a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts. The experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds. After each round, a facilitator provides an anonymous summary of the experts’ forecasts from the previous round as well as the reasons they provided for their judgments. Thus, experts are encouraged to revise their earlier answers in light of the replies of other members of their panel. It is believed that during this process the range of the answers will decrease and the group will converge towards the "correct" answer. Finally, the process is stopped after a pre-defined stop criterion (e.g. number of rounds, achievement of consensus, stability of results) and the mean or median scores of the final rounds determine the results

3. Based on what you find out about the Delphi method, what shortcomings, risks, or other weaknesses do you see for the process that we followed in class? Also do you see a way to fix some of these?

Deplhi method doesn't have accurate stable result. Sometimes participating group can mis assume about the years. I don't know the way to fix it.

Homework # 2

 2005

India is the leading place of origin for international students with 80,466 students in the U.S. in 2004/05 (an increase of 1% from the previous year), followed by #2 China (62,523, up 1%), #3 Korea (53,358, up 2%), #4 Japan (42,215, up 3%), #5 Canada (28,140, up 4%), #6 Taiwan (25,914, down 1%), #7 Mexico (13,063, down 2%), #8 Turkey (12,474, up 9%), #9 Germany (8,640, down 1%), #10 Thailand (8,637, down 3%), #11 United Kingdom (8,236, down 2%), #12 Indonesia (7,760, down 13%), #13 Colombia (7,334, down 3%), #14 Brazil (7,244, down 7%), #15 Hong Kong, China (7,180, down 2%), #16 Kenya (6,728, down 9%), #17 France (6,555, down 4%), #18 Nigeria (6,335, up 3%), #19 Pakistan (6,296, down 14%), #20 Malaysia (6,142, down 5%).

 2009
India is the leading place of origin for international students in the United States with 103,260 in 2008/09 (an increase of 9% from the previous year), followed by #2 China (98,510, up 21%) #3 South Korea (75,065, up 9%), #4 Canada (29,697, up 2%), #5 Japan (29,264, down 14%), #6 Taiwan (28,065, down 3%), #7 Mexico (14,850, up 0.1%), #8 Turkey (13,263, up 10%), #9 Vietnam (12,823, up 46%), #10 Saudi Arabia (12,661, up 28%), #11 Nepal (11,581, up 30%), #12 Germany (9,679, up 9%), #13 Brazil (8,767, up 16%), #14 Thailand (8,736, down 3%), #15 United Kingdom (8,701, up 4%), #16 Hong Kong (8,329, up 1%) #17 Indonesia (7,509, down 2%), #18 France (7,421, up 5%), #19 Colombia (7,013, up 5%), #20 Nigeria (6,256, up 1%), #21 Malaysia (5,942, up 10%), #22 Kenya (5,877, up 1%), #23 Pakistan (5,298, down 1%), #24 Russia (4,908, up 0%), and #25 Venezuela (4,678, up 5%). (For further details on the trends in recent years from each of these leading places of origin, go to the Open Doors website and click on “Country Sheets”). The top ten most popular fields of study for international students in the United States in 2008/09 were Business and Management (21% of total), Engineering (18%) and Physical and Life Sciences (9%), Social Sciences (9%), Mathematics and Computer Science (8%), Health Professions (5%), Fine & Applied Arts (5%), Intensive English Language (4%), Humanities (3%), Education (3%), and Agriculture (1%). Undeclared majors are excluded from the rankings of top fields of study.

For the eighth year in a row, the University of Southern California is the leading host institution with 7,482 international students. New York University hosts the second highest number of foreign students (6,761). Other campuses in the top 10 are: Columbia University (6,685), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (6,570), Purdue University (6,136), University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (5,790), University of Texas – Austin (5,703), University of California – Los Angeles (5,590), Boston University (5,037), and Michigan State University (4,757).

California remains the leading host state for international students (93,124, up 10%), followed by New York (74,934, up 7%), Texas (58,188, up 12%), Massachusetts (33,838, up 6%), Florida (30,386, up 14%), Illinois (29,887, up 4%), Pennsylvania (27,529, up 6%), Michigan (23,617, 3%), Ohio (20,725, up 7%), and Indiana (17,098, up 10%). (For breakdowns by state, including leading host institutions and leading fields of study and places of origin for foreign students studying in each state, go to the Open Doors website and click on “State Sheets”). 



Based on this statistic

2019

International Students in U.S, majority may consisted of Chinese students approximately