August 29 (Tue), 2017 Presentation by Victoria McQuinn on the ACM student chapter. Presentation by Mr. Brown Blake, First-Year Academic Advisor. Administrative information: syllabus, grading policy; there is no textbook for this course. Jobs in computing and academic subfields of computing: brief introduction.
September 5 (Tue), 2017 Welcome by the chair of the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Prof. Matt Thatcher. Presentation by Kathryn Kinniburgh and Chris Lewandoski of the USC Career Center (CEC Satellite Office).
September 12 (Tue), 2017 Presentation by the instructor of "Trends in the Infrastructure of Computing" by Dr. Jason Bakos.
September 19 (Tue), 2017 Presentation by Silvia Arrua and on the IEEE and Abdollahi of Hessamaldin of the IEEE student chapter. Presentation by Prof. Duncan Buell of the University of South Carolina on the field of Digital Humanities, with a discussion of the First-Year English and Ward One projects.
September 26 (Tue), 2017 Students are reminded that the SET Career Fair is tomorrow at the Columbia Convention Center. Presentation on Artificial Intelligence and the Watson Question-Answering System.
October 3 (Tue), 2017 Added on 2017-10-09: HW1 is due on October 19, 2017; submit via the departmental dropbox; see main course website for details. Presentation by Mr. Brown Blake, First-Year Academic Advisor, with Q&A. The Turing Test. Brief comments on Neural Networks as a paradigm shift in Artificial Intelligence.
October 10 (Tue), 2017 Presentation by Paul Segona and Ben Torkien (HPC Systems Architect and Senior Applications Scientist in the Research Cyberinfrastructure Office) on High Performance Computing at the University of South Carolina; remarks by Dr. Phil Moore, Director of Cyberinfrastructure.
October 17 (Tue), 2017 Presentation on Trends in Robotics by Dr. Ioannis Rekleitis of the University of South Carolina.
October 24 (Tue), 2017 Presentation on Programming Language Paradigms.
October 31 (Tue), 2017 Presentation by Mr. Jeremy Greenberger of IBM on Invention and Computing.
November 7 (Tue), 2017 We listen to two recent episodes of the BBC show "The Inquiry": "Can We Teach Robots Ethics?" (October 12, 2017) and "Who Wins in a Cashless Economy?" (September 20, 2016). A link to The Inquiry's website with the podcasts is given on the main course website, under "useful links."
November 14 (Tue), 2017 Presentation (by M.V): Judea Pearl, 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner.
November 21 (Tue), 2017 "Life in Industry," a presentation by Dr. Jerrold Heyman of Dell EMC.
November 28 (Tue), 2017 Presentation on Trends in Software Engineering, with an emphasis on automated software testing and repair by Dr. Gregory Gay of the University of South Carolina.
December 5 (Tue), 2017 End of course questionnaire. Presentation on Bitcoin and Blockchain by Mr. Daniel Pade of the University of South Carolina.