January 11 (Tue), 2011 Class canceled due to inclement weather.
January 18 (Tue), 2011 HW1 assigned, due January 25---see main course web site for details. Administrative information: syllabus, grading policy; there is no textbook for this course. Beginning of course questionnaire, with discussion.
January 25 (Tue), 2011 HW2 assigned, due 2011-02-08. Presentation by Ms. Jennifer Whetson-Jackson of the CEC Satellite Office of the USC Career Center.
February 1 (Tue), 2011 HW1 graded---on blackboard, but not returned. Reminder: HW2 due 2011-02-08. No new homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Jason Bakos on trends in the infrastructure of computing: processing, storage, bandwidth.
February 8 (Tue), 2011 HW2 collected. Optional extra assignment: register for and attend (parts of) POSSCON. See main page of course web site for details. Student registration, including lunch, is free to the first 150 student registrants. No new required homework assigned. Presentation on artificial intelligence with a brief discussion of the Watson Jeopardy-playing program.
February 15 (Tue), 2011 HW3 assigned, due 2011-02-22---see main course web site. The IBM Watson Jeopardy playing program and computer system.
February 22 (Tue), 2011 HW3 collected. Presentation by Dr. Duncan Buell on Electronic Voting Machines.
March 1 (Tue), 2011 No homework returned. No homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Jason O'Kane on robotics.
March 15 (Tue), 2011 No homework returned. No homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Csilla Farkas on computer security and information assurance.
March 22 (Tue), 2011 No homework returned. No homework assigned. Presentation by Dr. Homayoun Valafar on Computational Biology and Computational Medicine. The next class meeting will be at IToLogy. Quick directions: IT-oLogy is at 1301 Gervais Street Suite 200, Columbia, SC 29201: IToLogy is located at the large gray Wilbur Smith Building on the corner of Gervais Street and Sumter Street. Please enter the building lobby on the first floor and take the elevators to the second floor. We are the only office space located on the second floor, which you will see after you exit the elevators. See main web page for more information.
March 29 (Tue), 2011 Site visit to IT-oLogy with presentation and tour by Mr. Lonnie Emard of Blue Cross-Blue Shield and president of IT-oLogy.
April 5 (Tue), 2011 Presentation by Mr. Ben Francis of the National Guard and president of the Columbia Area Linux User Group (ColaLUG) on Open Source Software.
April 12 (Tue), 2011 Bayesian networks.
April 19 (Tue), 2011 Functional and Logic Programming. There will be no final exam. Please insure that the blackoard contains all grades for all your work. There will be no final exam for this course.