Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) Spring 2011

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Date Problems CS Topics Materials Reports
Feb 4 Ice breakers; Sudoku Representing problems abstractly 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
Reports
Feb 11 NIM; balancing coins Designing algorithms for problems Workshop 2
(drafts: NIM (from Rutgers),Coins)

handout
Reports
Feb 18 Discussion about computer translation; NACLO problems: monkeys, luvian, fish, amharic Computational Linguistics notes
slides
handout
(original materials: Monkey and children: problem, solution
Luvian: problem, solution
A Fish Story (same as monkey)
Amharic: problem, solution)
Reports
Feb 25 Encoding; encryption Encoding; encryption

Encoding and compression problems and slides; Cryptographs

handout
Reports
Mar 4 Face Recognition; Handwriting Recognition; Speech Recognition; mid-term survey Biometrics; Spoken Language Processing
slides
notes
handout
Remind students to fill out midterm survey (online)
Reports
Mar 25 Facebook Graph Algorithms and Social Network Analysis notes
slides
handout
Reports
Apr 1 Usability
Human-Computer Interaction; UI Design; Info Viz
notes
slides
handout TODO TED links: siftables, 6th sense - projector interface; skinput
Reports
Apr 8 TSP, cliques, vertex cover NP Completeness notes
slides
handout
Reports
Apr 15 Real-world Social Problems (Digital Dilemmas)
(Note: possibly move this earlier)
Ethics of technology; policy-making decisions slides
(other possible cases, for future reference)
No workshop handout, ESP what's next handout.
Reports
ESP Reunion/networking + exit survey

Other materials:
In case you end early, try the logic problems at the end of these packets from Madison:
ages/handshakes, lion, llama, etc; word game (GUI)
Haven't tried this one yet: chocolate game1, game2
we don't like this one: desert island.

Improvements to implement for Spring 2011