Important Dates
Start Date: Wednesday, January 7
Last Day Registration: Wednesday, January 14
Holiday (MLK): Monday, January 19
Last Day to Withdraw (W): Tuesday, February 24
Spring Break: March 7 - 15
Holiday: April 9 - 10
Last Day Classes: Monday, April 27
Paper Dates
Midterm Paper: Friday, February 20 (subject to change)
Final Paper: Friday, April 17 (subject to change)
Final Exam: Final paper will be used in lieu of a final examination.
Log on guide for Blackboard. http://www.uncw.edu/itsd/documents/LogintoBlackboardVISTA4.doc
Office hours: TR 2-3:30 pm and W 8:30-9:30 am.
| Week | Friday |
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| 1 | 1/9: Introduction to the field of Computer Science (intro slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): |
| 2 | 1/16: Faculty: Ron Vetter (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Midterm Paper (Due: Feb 20) |
| 3 | 1/23: Faculty: Laurie Patterson. General Computer Application Knowledge: Is There a Difference Between Genders? (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): |
| 4 | 1/30: Industry: Ryan Wilkins (PPD, Inc). Biostatistics for Pharmaceutical Development and Drug Trials (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): Craniofacial Aging, Wiley Handbook on Homeland Security (Pre-print)
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| 5 | 2/6: Faculty: Karl Ricanek. Biometrics Overview (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): http://people.uncw.edu/tompkinsj/112/texnh/assignments/101asg4writeup.html#examples |
| 6 | 2/13: Faculty: Jack Tompkins. Image Algorithms in C Programming (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): The Curious Case of Aging Visual Effects: http://www.fxguide.com/article520.html
Additional Material: Comparison of Synthetic Face Aging Creating Life Like Characters in Toy Story
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| 7 | 2/20: Faculty: Eric Patterson. Computer Graphics (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): |
| 8 | 2/27: Student: Maurice Benson. Brain Computer Interfaces--BCI's (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): Bran Selic, The Pragmatics of Model-Driven Development, IEEE Software, SEP/OCT 2003 (Vol. 20, No. 5) pp. 19-25 LINK <http://0-csdl.computer.org.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/dl/mags/so/2003/05/s5019.pdf> |
| 9 | 3/6: Faculty: Devon Simmonds. Software Engineering (My Intro Slides)
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): |
| 10 | 3/13: Spring BREAK.... Yeah!!!! |
| 11 | 3/20: Faculty: Marni Ferner. Databases (My Intro Slides) The quiz will be based on the presentation. See week 9 reading.
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): Chapter 1 from Jurafsky and Martin’s Speech and Language Processing (17 pages): http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/SLP/Updates/1.pdf |
| 12 | 3/27: Faculty: Curry Guinn. Natural Langauge Processing (My Intro Slides)
Final Paper requirements posted. Final paper is due April 17th. Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): "Google and the Wisdom of Clouds: A lofty new strategy aims to put incredible computing power in the hands of many"
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| 13 | 4/3: Faculty: Clayton Ferner. Cloud and Grid Computing (My Intro Slides)
Reading: No reading next class is holiday... Next presenter will discuss co-op and intern experience. |
| 14 | 4/10: Holiday |
| 15 | Class moved to Cameron Hall Room 123 4/17: Faculty: Ralph Bradley TBA (My Intro Slides)
FINAL PAPER DUE TODAY
Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class): Squeak Etoys from http://squeakland.org and take a look at http://useitproject.org. |
| 16 | 4/24: Faculty: Sridhar Narayan TBA (My Intro Slides)
Final class of the term.... You made it.... |