January 12 (Tue), 2010 HW1 assigned, due January 19---see elsewhere for details. Administrative information: textbook, syllabus, grading policy. Beginning of course questionnaire, with discussion.
January 19 (Tue), 2010 HW2 collected. Curricula in Computing. Careers in computing---Professor Duncan Buell's video.
January 26 (Tue), 2010 HW2 assigned, due February 2---see elsewhere for details. Presentation by Dr. Csilla Farkas on computer security and information assurance.
February 2 (Tue), 2010 HW2 collected. HW3 assigned, due February 9---see elsewhere for details. Presentation on artificial intelligence. Video of a panel on Artificial Intelligence at the Charlie Rose show---see elsewhere for link.
February 9 (Tue), 2010 HW3 collected. HW4 assigned, due February 16---see elsewhere for details. Presentation by Ms. Helen Fields of the CEC Satellite Office of the USC Career Center.
February 16 (Tue), 2010 HW3 returned. HW4 collected. No new homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Jason Bakos on trends in the infrastructure of computing: processing, storage, bandwidth.
February 23 (Tue), 2010 No homework returned. No homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Jason O'Kane on robotics.
March 2 (Tue), 2010 No homework returned. No homework assigned. Research methodologies in computing.
March 16 (Tue), 2010 Bayesian networks.
March 23 (Tue), 2010 Logic Programming.
March 30 (Tue), 2010 Functional Programming.
April 6 (Tue), 2010 No homework returned. No homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Homayoun Valafar on bioinformatics.
April 13 (Tue), 2010 HW5 assigned, due Tuesday, April 20. See elsewhere on website for details. Presentation by Mr. Stephen D. Dryer of the Mariner Group.
April 20 (Tue), 2010 HW5 collected. Presentation by Mr. David V. Dunn of VC3. There will be no final exam for this course.