If you are nearing the end of a semester and find that, for some reason, you will not be able to earn enough points to get credit for CS195/295, you should first talk to your advisor. She or he might ask you to do one or more of the following assignments to earn points. Completing an assignment below is worth one point. To complete the assignment, you must watch the video and write a 2-page paper summarizing it. Give the paper to your advisor.
- ACM Learning Webinar
You can stream all past webcasts directly from the ACM Learning Center. You can also download a PDF file of the slides for each webinar.
The following presentations are available: - July 2013, Changing How Programmers Think about Parallel Programming
- June 2013, IBM Watson: Beyond Jeopardy
- May 2013, Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Software Approach
- April 2013, Internet's Future Social Implications: Upheaval or "Trek's" Promise?
- November 2012, Condos and Clouds: Patterns in SaaS Applications
- September 2012, Recommender Systems: The Power of Personalization
- June 2012, Big Data: End of the World or End of BI?
- April 2012, Security: Computing in an Adversarial Environment
- January 2012, The Cloud in Your Hands: Marriage of Cloud Computing with Smart Devices
- Normal Considered Harmful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
- Inventing on Principle: http://vimeo.com/36579366
- Stop Drawing Dead Fish: http://vimeo.com/64895205
- Cliff Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg story on Nova: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkFK-xtyZlU&list=PL4770F934AA63AF71
- ACM Turing Award lectures: http://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm
- If you click on a given person's name, most offer a video of that person's lecture.