Week
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Lectures
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Labs
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| 1: 2/5 | - Intro: Computer science, a new way of looking at the world. (CS is not just Programming!) [slides pdf/ppt]
- Telling a robot how to behave. [slides pdf/ppt]
| Web 2.0, Blogs, Social Networking [lab] |
| 2: 2/12 | - Telling a computer how to behave. (Via pseudocode). [slides pdf/ppt]
- Everything's a number. (Simulation. Creating new worlds. Games and Life.) [slides pdf/ppt]
| Introduction to Pseudocode [lab] |
| 3: 2/19 | - It ain't no good if it ain't snappy enough. (Efficient computations; viewing the world via efficiency.) [slides pdf/ppt]
- "Seek and Ye shall find." (The continuum of computer "intelligence".) [slides pdf/ppt]
| Controlling the Robot I [lab] |
| 4: 2/26 | - It sure is clever, but can it swing? (Computer music.) [slides pdf/ppt]
- What computers cannot do (I): The fluid boundary between program and data. [slides pdf/ppt]
| Digital Audio and Music [lab] |
| 5: 3/4 | - What computers cannot do (II): Universal machines. [slides pdf/ppt]
- Ruminations on illumination (computer graphics). [slides pdf/ppt]
- About self reproducing programs [pdf]
| Controlling the Robot II [lab] |
| 6: 3/11 | - Logic: From Greeks to philosophers to circuits. [slides pdf/ppt]
- Midterm.
| Review Session |
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| 7: 3/25 | - Memory, sequential and clocked circuits; Finite state machines. [slides pdf/ppt]
- Computer organization: CPUs and RAM. [slides pdf/ppt]
| Digital Logic I [lab] |
| 8: 4/1 | - How to streamline your life (Lessons from computer architecture). [slides pdf/ppt]
- What computers talk about and how. (Networking & the Internet.) [slides pdf/ppt]
| Digital Logic II [lab] |
| 9: 4/8 | - The science that drives modern computers. [slides pdf/ppt]
- Viruses, worms, zombies, and other beasties. [slides pdf/ppt]
| Internet Structure and Congestion Control [lab] |
| 10: 4/15 | - What is the computational cost of automating brilliance or serendipity? (P vs NP question and related musings) [slides pdf/ppt]
- Secrets and Lies, Knowledge and Trust. (Modern cryptography.) [slides pdf/ppt]
| Virus and Worm Propagation in Networks [lab] |
| 11: 4/22 | - Computer Vision and Graphics: Two sides of a coin [slides pdf/ppt]
- Self-improvement for dummies(Machine Learning) [slides pdf/ppt]
| Computer Graphics [lab] |
| 12: 4/39 | - Artificial intelligence (and Searle's objection) [slides pdf/ppt]
- What we have learnt in this course [slides pdf/ppt]
| Machine Learning [lab] |
