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15-128 meets Tuesday from 3:00 p.m. to 4:20 in
7500 Wean Hall.
During this series, freshman CS majors meet and hear from
different members of the SCS community.
The speakers talk about our school, their research in CS,
the history of computing, and future trends.
The goal is to expand the students' concepts of what is
Computer Science and what resources are available to them as
students within the School of Computer Science.
In addition, this course is a place to build community among
the Freshman class, and to extend their horizons within
and without CMU.
To this end, please read the
Passing the IC web page, which
describes how to accumulate enough points to pass this course.
Download the Point Log, an Excel file
for monitoring/describing your activities (you will have to hand
int this file).
Current Jobs (for IC points) I'd like to fill
(email pattis@cs.cmu.edu to volunteer)
- I'm looking for software that accepts jpegs containing a rectangular grid
of smaller jpegs (from a scanner) and creates a file for each of
the individual smaller jpegs.
Index to writeups for talks attended
and reported by students (not IC talks).
Schedule: Fall 2005
| Date |
Speaker/Activity |
| August 30, 2005 |
Randy Bryant, Dean of the School of Computer Science,
Title/Course-Cast:
The CMU School of Computer Science
SPECIAL: Jennifer Mankoff's
RSI Brochure (a .pdf)
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| September 6, 2005 |
Jeannette Wing, Computer Science Department Head,
Title/Course-Cast:
The Computer Science Department
Links:
Formal Methods: State of the Art and Future Directions and
Beyond the Horizon: A Call to Arms
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| September 13, 2005 |
Klaus Sutner, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education,
Title/Course-Cast:
Digital Physics: Automata Take Over the Universe
Reference: Ilachinski, Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe,
World Scientific, 2001.
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| September 20, 2005 |
Rich Pattis,
Scott McElfresh,
Mark Stehlik,
Rowshan Palmer
Kevin Collins,
and
Tina Carr
Title/Course-Cast:
Intoductions
Cynthia Valley's powerpoint notes on
Student Mental Health at Carnegie Mellon
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| September 27, 2005 |
Manuela Veloso
Title/Coursecast:
Teams of Autonomous Robots
Link:
CORAL (Cooperate, Observe the world, Reason, Act, and Learn)
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| October 4, 2005 |
Robert Frederking (The Language Technologies Institute in SCS)
Title/Coursecast:
Computers That Talk
Links:
LTI's Onlile Survey of Language Translaton Technologies and
What Global LanguageThe Atlantic, November 2000.
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| October 11, 2005 |
Roger Dannenberg
Title/Coursecast:
Computers That Understand Music
Link:
Computer Music at CMU
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| October 18, 2005 |
Luis von Ahn
Title/Coursecast:
Human Computation
Link: Peekaboom
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| October 25, 2005 |
James Kuffner
Title/Coursecast:
The Humanoid Robotics Dream
Links:
Wikipedia entry for Robot and
S.M. LaValle,
Planning Algorithms,
Cambridge University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).
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| November 1, 2005 |
Seth Goldstein
Title/Coursecast:
Claytronics: A Step Toward Nanoscale Manufacturing
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| November 8, 2005 |
Chris Langmead
Title/Coursecast:
The Role of Computer Science in Biology and Medicine
Links:
Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists by Lawrence Hunter
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| November 15, 2005 |
Michael Shamos
Title/Coursecast:
Applying Computer Science Theory to a Real-World Banking Problem
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| November 22, 2005 |
Red Whittaker
Title/Coursecast:
Racing for the Future - Robots at Work
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| November 29, 2005 |
Randy Pausch
Title/Coursecast:
Entertainment Technology:
The Key is Putting Difference Disciplines Together
Links: ETC,
Alice,
and Joseph Jaffee,
Life After the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand With a Bold
Mix of Alternatives to Traditional Advertising,
John Wiley & Sons, 2005
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| December 6, 2005 |
Joe Mertz
Title/Coursecast:
Getting out from behind the computer ... and changing the world
Links:
Lecture Slides and Pictures(.pdf)
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CMU Sony Legged Robot Soccer Team (see Manuela Veloso) |
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Student project from Building Virtual Worlds course, Entertainment Technology (see Jesse Schell) |
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3D Mine Mapping Project |
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