| Date
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Problems
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CS Topics
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Materials
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Reports
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Feb 4
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Ice breakers; Sudoku
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Representing problems abstractly
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Plan for intro workshop,
Some sudoku puzzles
(small and large), p 3-6,
More puzzles & solutions
handout
TODO: justify why we're doing this better
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Reports
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Feb 11
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NIM; balancing coins
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Designing algorithms for problems
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Workshop 2
(drafts: NIM
(from Rutgers),Coins)
handout
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Reports
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Feb 18
|
Discussion about computer translation; NACLO problems: monkeys, luvian, fish, amharic
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Computational Linguistics
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notes
slides
handout
(original materials:
Monkey and children:
problem,
solution
Luvian:
problem,
solution
A Fish Story (same as monkey)
Amharic:
problem,
solution)
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Reports
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Feb 25
|
Encoding; encryption
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Encoding; encryption
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Encoding and compression problems
and slides;
Cryptographs
handout
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Reports
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Mar 4
|
Face Recognition; Handwriting Recognition; Speech Recognition; mid-term survey
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Biometrics; Spoken Language Processing
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slides
notes
handout
Remind students to fill out midterm survey (online)
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Reports
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Mar 25
|
Facebook
|
Graph Algorithms and Social Network Analysis
|
notes
slides
handout
|
Reports
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|
Apr 1
|
Usability
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Human-Computer Interaction; UI Design; Info Viz
|
notes
slides
handout TODO
TED links: siftables,
6th sense - projector interface;
skinput
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Reports
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Apr 8
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TSP, cliques, vertex cover
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NP Completeness
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notes
slides
handout
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Reports
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Apr 15
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Real-world Social Problems (Digital Dilemmas)
(Note: possibly move this earlier)
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Ethics of technology; policy-making decisions
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slides
(other possible cases, for future reference)
No workshop handout, ESP what's next handout.
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Reports
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ESP Reunion/networking + exit survey
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