August 26 (Tue), 2014 HW1 assigned, due September 2, 2014---see main course site for details. Administrative information: syllabus, grading policy; there is no textbook for this course. Presentation by Taylor Greene of Google's CS First program, with Q&A. Subfields of computing: brief introduction.
September 2 (Tue), 2014 HW1 collected. HW2 assigned, due September 23, 2014---see main course site for details. Welcome by Prof. Manton Matthews, department chair. Presentation by Ms. Jennifer Whetstone-Jackson of the USC Career Center.
September 9 (Tue), 2014 Presentation by Mr. Chris Pierson of SCANA Corporation.
September 16 (Tue), 2014 Presentation by Prof. Duncan Buell of the USC Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
September 23 (Tue), 2014 HW1 returned (to students who did not have a full score; grades are on blackboard). HW2 collected. Presentation by Mr. Richard Baldwin of cyberwoven.com.
September 30 (Tue), 2014 Presentation by Mr. Paul Sagona and Mr. Ben Torkian of the University of South Carolina office of Research Cyberinfrastructure.
October 7 (Tue), 2014 Presentation on Health Informatics and Data Mining by Dr. Denise Koessler Gosnell of PokitDok.com: "Data Science in Industry: Who, What, How"?
October 14 (Tue), 2014 Presentation on Systems Programming by Dr. Jerrold Heyman of EMC, Inc.
October 21 (Tue), 2014 Presentation on Robotics by Dr. Ioannis Rekleitis of the University of South Carolina.
October 28 (Tue), 2014 Presentation on Artificial Intelligence and the Watson Question-Answering System
November 11 (Tue), 2014 Presentation by Dr. Mary K. Harris of Savannah River National Laboratory.
November 18 (Tue), 2014 Field trip to IT-oLogy. Presentation by Mr. Lonnie Emard, President, IT-oLogy.
November 25 (Tue), 2014 Presentation on Programming Language Paradigms.
November 25 (Tue), 2014 There will be no final exam. See new grading policy. (Synthesis: turn in both homework assignments, get an A. Do it!) Talk on the work of Judea Pearl, 2011 ACM A.M.Turing Award Winner. Student evaluation. End of course.