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JBS Lecture Series on Mobile Apps and Game Design

tjhickey — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:40:15 +0000

The CS department is sponsoring a series of lectures on Mobile Applications and Game Design as part of the Justice Brandeis Semester program of the same name being offered this summer. All of the lectures are being taped and the videos posted to youtube. You can also attend in person on Mondays from 1-2 in Lemberg 55. Here is a link to the series with links to the videos and info about future talks this summer: https://sites.google.com/site/jbs2011mobile/info-pages/classroom-work/speakers These lectures are open to all, please come if you are in the neighborhood! We will have two alumni speaking in the series: Rob Lindeman ’85 (Assoc Prof of CS at WPI) who spoke last week and Haggai Goldfarb ’85, CEO of LIquidBits, Inc. who will be speaking on 7/11. Here is a link to a video of Prof. Lindeman’s talk:

VIDEO: Rob Lindeman ’85 on “Virtual and Augmented Reality”

NEUCS-11

tjhickey — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:30:19 +0000

Brandeis is one of the co-organizers of the third annual New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium which will be held on Saturday April 9th at Tufts University. This symposium is designed to build community among undergraduate Computer Science majors in New England and also to increase the diversity of our undergraduate majors by actively reaching out to under-represented groups and encouraging them to participate. Students register online at https://sites.google.com/site/neucs11/ by completing a simple form describing the project they plan to demo or present as a poster. We expect to have 60-80 students projects and around 150 students and faculty attending the symposium. If you are an undergrad that has written an interesting mobile app, or completed a creative project in one of your classes, or are working in a research lab on an exciting problem involving computation, please visit the site and register to present your project and/or demo your code.

NEUCS2010

Intro to Scientific Computing

tjhickey — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:53:27 +0000

Tim Hickey will be teaching a new course this semester, CS177 Introduction to Scientific Computing. The course meets MWT 9-10 and has no prerequisites. The first part of the course will be an introduction to the lingua franca of the Scientific programming community Matlab/Octave. The second part of the course will cover the use of Matlab/Octave to solve a variety of scientific problems using various techniques including statistical analysis, curve fitting, optimization, ordinary and partial differential equation solving, image processing, SVD and other matrix factorizations, 2d and 3d plotting. Students will also learn to use a number of tools for collaboration and dissemination of scientific results including LaTeX for scientific papers, GIT for source code sharing, google docs for shared editing and google sites for dissemination of results. For more info see the course website