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]
- Telling a robot how to behave. [slides]
| Web 2.0, Blogs, Social Networking [lab] |
| 2: 2/12 | - Telling a computer how to behave. (Via pseudocode). [slides]
- Everything's a number. (Simulation. Creating new worlds. Games and Life.) [slides]
| 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]
- "Seek and Ye shall find." (The continuum of computer "intelligence".) [slides]
| Controlling the Robot I [lab] |
| 4: 2/26 | - It sure is clever, but can it swing? (Computer music.) [slides]
- What computers cannot do (I): The fluid boundary between program and data. [slides]
| Digital Audio and Music [lab] |
| 5: 3/5 | - What computers cannot do (II): Universal machines. [slides]
- Ruminations on illumination (computer graphics). [slides]
| Controlling the Robot II [lab] |
| 6: 3/12 (midterms) | - Logic: From Greeks to philosophers to circuits. [slides]
- More Boolean logic and combinational circuits. [slides]
| Computer Graphics [lab] |
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| 7: 3/26 | - Memory, sequential and clocked circuits; Finite state machines. [slides]
- Computer organization: CPUs and RAM. [slides]
| Digital Logic I [lab] |
| 8: 4/2 | - How to streamline your life (Lessons from computer architecture). [slides]
- What computers talk about and how. (Networking & the Internet.) [slides]
| Digital Logic II [lab] |
| 9: 4/9 | - The science that drives modern computers. [slides]
- What is the computational cost of automating brilliance or serendipity? (P vs NP question and related musings) [slides]
| Internet Structure and Congestion Control [lab] |
| 10: 4/16 | - Secrets and Lies, Knowledge and Trust. (Modern cryptography.) [slides]
- Viruses, worms, zombies, and other beasties. [slides]
| Cryptography [lab] |
| 11: 4/23 | - Self-improvement for dummies. (Machine Learning.) [slides]
- Can machines think? [slides]
| Virus and Worm Propagation in Networks [lab] |
| 12: 4/30 | - How can computers help cure cancer? (Computational biology.) [slides]
- Wrap-up & Discussion of Searle: Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?
| Machine Learning [lab] |
