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department Computer Science (X) |
Preference to freshmen. The capabilities of the Internet and its services. Writing for the web. The effect on commerce, education, government, and health care. Technical and business alternatives. Who is hurt and who benefits from the changes? Participants develop web publications.
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For those with limited experience with computers or who want to learn more about Stanford's computing environment. Topics include: computer maintenance and security, computing resources, Internet privacy, and copyright law. One-hour lecture/demonstration in dormitory clusters prepared and administered weekly by the Resident Computer Consultant (RCC). Final project. Not a programming course.
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Sound, image and video editing techniques and applications, including understanding file formats and publishing multimedia online. Topics: GarageBand, Photoshop, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and iDVD. Weekly lecture followed by lab section. Second unit for additional creative production assignments completed out of class time and extensive Final Project. Not a programming course, but will use computer multimedia applications heavily for editing.
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Intellectual foundations of computer science of program applications, social networking, and web information. Topics include: mathematical theories of social networking, computer intelligence, and the boundaries of what is possible to compute. Field trips to Silicon Valley companies and institutions.
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Preference to freshmen. Can mental attitudes attributed to people and sometimes to animals, including knowledge, belief, desire, and intention, also be ascribed to machines? Can light sensors have a belief? Can a pool cleaning robot or tax-preparation software have an intention? If not, why not? If yes, what are the rules of such ascription, and do they vary between human beings and machines? Sources include philosophy, neuroscience, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Topics: logic, probability theory, and elements of computation. Students present a paper.
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How online technologies change our lives and the social structure that we live in. Course emphasizes critical analyses of current trends i.e. blogging, social networks, and instant mobile communication. Readings include case studies and analyses of basic principles i.e. privacy, equity and sustainability. Guest speakers who have participated in development of computers and the net will share their experiences and enter into debates on current issues. Students work individually and in small groups to research issues, develop the capacity for critical thinking about them, and use the results as the basis for writing and discussions both in class and on-line.
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Preference to freshmen. The interwoven histories of science and Western art from the Renaissance to the 19th century. Emphasis is on the revolutions in science and mathematics that inspired parallel revolutions in the visual arts such as Brunelleschi's invention of linear perspective, Newton's discoveries in geometric optics, and the theories of color vision proposed by Goethe, Young, and Helmholtz. The scientific principles behind image making including digital image synthesis and computer graphics. No programming experience required.
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Preference to freshmen. How visionaries anticipated the future; how could they see what their contemporaries did not? How can others strive for comparable achievements? The insights of Alan Turing, Vannevar Bush, Richard Licklider, Ted Nelson, Morton Heilig, Ivan Sutherland, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Frederick Brooks, and others.
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Preference to freshmen. The capabilities of the Internet and its services. Writing for the web. The effect on commerce, education, government, and health care. Technical and business alternatives. Who is hurt and who benefits from the changes? Participants develop web publications.
Score: 7.8671803 Details | Listing | Web page