Frontiers of Computer Science

UW Computer science researchers discussed their fields and projects. The goal was to demonstrate the incredible diversity of problems which are best tackled by computer scientists.

Multilearn

• Multilearn Website Presenters: Sunil Garg and Clint Tseng
• [.pdf]

Tactile Graphics

• Tactile Graphics Website Presenter: Joshua Scotland
• .pptx Slides

Panlingual Lexical Translation

• Panlingual Lexical Translation Website Presenter Chris Lim
• .pptx Slides

Molecular Logic Circuits

Cryptography

• Cryptography Made Easy Slides [.ppt]
• The links shown during the cryptography talk are listed on this website

Why Choose CSE - Videos

• Three videos produced by the UW CSE Department to highlight the diversity of the field of Computer Science
• Pathways in CSE

CS Unplugged Part I

Activities designed to teach computer science topics without computers.

Debunking Stereotypes

A presentation discussing how myths and stereotypes can impact a students' view of computer science

Kindle, books, newspapers

• Kindle Presentation [.ppt].

Visual Programming Lab

Visual programming environments are perfect for teaching computational concepts and problem solving techniques without having to worry about syntax.

• Professor Dan Grossman's Squeak Presentation [.ppt].
• Roulette Demo: This .pr file download will only work if you already have Squeak Etoys installed.
• Squeak site (download Squeak here)
• NASA Squeak web activities
• More Squeak activities
• Scratch (a more modern visual programming language)
• Scratch for educators
• Scratch math projets (polar graphs, projectiles, slope, complex numbers...)
• Programming concepts in Scratch
• Scratch science projects (magnetism, velocity, anatomy...)
• Alice (a 3D visual programming language)
• Greenfoot Consider greenfoot as a combination between a framework for creating two-dimensional grid assignments in Java and an integrated development environment (class browser, editor, compiler, execution, etc.) suitable for novice programmers.

Human Computation

• Human Computation Presentation [.ppt].

Programming

• We taught you the basics of how to program interactively with Python. In particular, we looked at how to apply a programming technique known as recursion to write short but powerful Python functions. We also discussed how you teach the important but challenging topic of recursion.
• Webpage for Stuart's Programming Presentation

Digital Audio

• Professor Richard Ladner's Computing for Everyone Presentation [.ppt].

Digital Audio

• Professor Ed Lazowska's Digital Audio Presentation [.ppt].

GPS

• Professor Ed Lazowska's GPS Presentation [.ppt].

Computer Science at UW

• Professor Ed Lazowska's Final presentation on the CSE department here at UW [.ppt].