Computer Science 448
Innovating Across Technology, Business, and Marketplaces
Fall 2023


Course Information | Schedule | Write-ups | Assignments | Help

COURSE INFORMATION

Course description.  Course teaches engineering students about issues tackled by leading Chief Technology Officers: the technical visionaries and/or managers who innovate at the boundaries of technology and business by understanding both deeply, and who are true partners to the CEO, not just implementers of business goals. Focus will be on thinking like a CTO (of a startup and a large company) from technology and business perspectives, and on software and Internet-based businesses. Industry-leading guest speakers provide perspectives too.

Lectures.  Lectures meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:00am - 12:20pm in Peyton 145

Required reading list. Students will be required to create a write-up for each book on the required reading list. Information on the book write-ups can be found on the write-ups page.

Recommended reading list.

Guest Lecturers. There will be a write-up due for each guest lecturer. Information on the guest lecturer write-ups can be found on the write-ups page.

Past speakers have included J. Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Square; M. Whitman, CEO of Ebay and now HP; F. Wilson, of Union Square Ventures; P. Graham, of Y!Combinator; S. Altman, of Y!Combinator; J. Hennessy, President of Stanford University; J. Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!; D. Greene, co-founder and CEO of VMWare; J. Clark, co-founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics; T. Siebel, founder and CEO of Siebel Systems; and C. Dickerson, CEO of Etsy.

Grading.  The grading is structured as follows:

Important due dates. 

All write-ups and papers should be submitted via Canvas by the deadline.

Skip Policy. Two guest speaker write-ups are allowed to be skipped.

Late Assignment Policy. 10% of your final grade will be docked per day up to 5 days, after which the assignment is not accepted.

Staff, Office Hours and Other Help. 

Instructor
Jaswinder P. Singh
Email: jps@cs.princeton.edu
Office: Computer Science 423
Office Hours: TBD, email to schedule.

Instructor
Robert Fish
Email: rfish@cs.princeton.edu
Office: Corwin Hall 37
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:30pm or email to schedule

AI
Beining Han
Email: bh7032@princeton.edu
Office: Friend Center Graduate Space
Office Hours: Thursday 4:00-5:00 pm

AI
Yihan Wang
Email: yw7685@princeton.edu
Office: Zoom
Office Hours: TBD, email to schedule.

AI
Byron Zhang
Email: zishuoz@princeton.edu
Office: Friend Center Graduate Space
Office Hours: Tuesday 8:00-9:00 pm

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