= Week =
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= Lectures =
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= Labs =
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| 1: 2/1 | - 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: 2/8 | - 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]
| Lab canceled/University closed
[lab] |
| 3: 2/15 | - 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: 2/22 | - What computers cannot do (I): The fluid boundary between program and data.
[slides pdf/ppt] - What computers cannot do (II): Universal machines.
[slides pdf/ppt]
| Controlling the Robot II
[lab] |
| 5: 3/1 | - It sure is clever, but can it swing? (Computer music.)
[slides pdf/ppt] - Self reproducing programs and intro to logic.
[slides pdf/ppt]
| Digital Audio and Music
[lab] |
| 6: 3/8 | - Logic: From Greeks to philosophers to circuits.
[slides pdf/ppt] - Midterm.
| Review Session |
| - 3/15 - | | --- |
| 7: 3/22 | - Memory, sequential and clocked circuits.
[slides pdf/ppt] - Computer organization: CPUs and RAM.
[slides pdf/ppt]
| Digital Logic I
[lab] |
| 8: 3/29 | - 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: 4/5 | - Viruses, worms, zombies, and other beasties.
[slides pdf/ppt] - The science that drives modern computers.
[slides pdf/ppt]
| Internet Structure and Congestion Control
[lab] |
| 10: 4/12 | - 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: 4/19 | - Rumination on illumination (computer graphics).
[slides pdf/ppt] - Self-improvement for dummies(Machine Learning)
[slides pdf/ppt]
| Computer Graphics
[lab] |
| 12: 4/26 | - Artificial intelligence
[slides pdf/ppt] - What we have learnt in this course
[slides pdf/ppt]
| Machine Learning
[lab] |
