There is no textbook for this course.
The first day of classes is Tuesday, August 29, 2017. The last day of drop-add is Wednesday, August 31, 2017. The last day to withdraw without failure is Monday, October 16, 2017. There will be no final exam for this course. See here for the fall 2017 academic calendar.
The syllabus in the table below is subject to change.
| Day | Topic |
|---|---|
| (1) August 29 | Welcome by the Department Chair, Prof. Matt Thatcher. Welcome by officers of student organizations: ACM student chapter, Women in Computing, Carolina Gamers Club. Welcome by Mr. Brown Blake, First-Year Academic Advisor. Why Study Computing? |
| (2) September 5 | Presentation by Mr. Chris Lewandowski or Ms. Kathryn Kinniburgh of the USC Career Center: Preparing for the Career Fair (confirmed) |
| (3) September 12 | Trends on the Infrastructure of Computing |
| (4) September 19 | Talk by Prof. Duncan Buell on Digital Humanities: "Digital Humanities: The Undiscovered Country?" (confirmed) |
| (5) September 26 | "How Does Watson Work? A Very Brief Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" (Blake Brown, First-Year advisor: Q&A on advisement for first-year students has been canceled). |
| (6) October 3 | Blake Brown, First-Year advisor: Q&A on advisement for first-year students (confirmed). Continuation of talk of September 26. (Presentation by Chris Pierson of SCANA Corporation: "Computing from an Electric and Gas Utility Perspective" has been canceled.) |
| (7) October 10 | Talk by Paul Sagona and Ben Torkian: "Support for Research Computing: the University of South Carolina Research Cyberinfrastructure Program" (confirmed). |
| (8) October 17 | Presentation by Dr. Yoannis Rekleitis of USC on Robotics (confirmed). |
| (9) October 24 | Lecture on programming language paradigms |
| (10)October 31 | Presentation by Jeremy Greenberger of IBM (confirmed). |
| (11) November 7 | Two recent episodes of "The Inquiry" on the BBC World Service: "Who Benefits from the Cashless Economy?" and "Can We Teach Robots Ethics?" |
| (12) November 14 | Judea Pearl, 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner |
| (13) November 21 | Presentation by Mr. Jerrold Heyman: "Life in Industry" (confirmed). |
| (14) November 28 | Talk by Dr. Gregory Gay on Software Engineering (confirmed). |
| (15) December 5 | TBA Course evaluation. |