Welcome to CIS 1001!!!

Slobodan VuceticAssociate Professor

Department of Computer and Information SciencesTemple University

Fall 2013CIS 1001: Introduction to Academics in Computer ScienceCourse Description: Students will be introduced to the field of computing, including potential career opportunities, the Computer & Information Sciences department and its resources, the departmental faculty, as well as the opportunities for internships and research. There will be guest lectures by Computer & Information Sciences faculty, students and alumni, and experts from industry, aimed to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of Computer and Information Sciences.

Class Meeting Time and Place:Friday, 10:00 am - 10:50 am, Beury Hall 160•Course Web Site:•http://cis-linux2.temple.edu/cis1001/ You will be sent an email to your temple.edu address with your username and password. You will be able to change your password once you login. If you have issues with the website, contact your TA.There is also a blackboard page for the course which will contain links to the recorded video lectures.•Instructors: •Course coordinator: Dr. Slobodan Vucetic, 304 Wachman Hall, vucetic@temple.edu. Office hours: Friday 11am-noon, virtual office is always open via email. Teaching Assistant: Lakesh Kansakar, lakesh.kansakar@temple.edu. Administrativia:•There is no required textbook.•Most lectures will be recorded and videos will be available soon after each lecture.•Grading: 14 homework assignments. The homeworks will typically be essays related to topics discussed in each lecture. Homework assignments will be posted within hours after each lecture and students will be sent an email announcement. Each homework must be submitted through the course web site by 10am the following Friday.•Attendance is required. A signup sheet will be used to record attendance. If a student signature is missing in the signup sheet for a particular lecture, it will be assumed that the student did not attend the lecture. Make sure to sign your name!!!•Each student is allowed to miss 3 lectures. For each missed lecture, the student will get a special homework assignment: watch the video lecture, do the regular homework assignment, and do an extra homework assignment.•Rules of conduct: This is a large class and discipline is essential. Please refrain from talking with your colleagues. Use of electronic devices is discouraged – if you absolutely have to use them, do it discretely and in silence. Entry to the classroom will not be permitted after 10:01am. Leaving the classroom before the end of a lecture is not allowed (unless there is a medical urgency). You will be required to agree to the rules of conduct before you can start using the course web site.Tentative Schedule: Weeks 1-3: Introduction to the CIS department, advising, career development Weeks 4-14: Guest Lectures

Fall 2013CIS 1001: Introduction to Academics in Computer Science

Course Description:

• Students will be introduced to the field of computing, including potential career opportunities, the Computer & Information Sciences department and its resources, the departmental faculty, as well as the opportunities for internships and research.

• There will be guest lectures by Computer & Information Sciences faculty, students and alumni, and experts from industry, aimed to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of Computer and Information Sciences.

Tentative Schedule:

Weeks 1-3: Introduction to the CIS department, advising, career development Weeks 4-14: Guest Lectures

Name(Symbol) Value

kilobyte (kB) 103

megabyte (MB) 106

gigabyte (GB) 109

terabyte (TB) 1012

petabyte (PB) 1015

exabyte (EB) 1018

zettabyte (ZB) 1021

yottabyte (YB) 1024

CIS is a growing field entering its golden age• Physical world will be increasingly driven by computers and information technology• Increased importance of virtual and augmented reality world

CIS is a growing field entering its golden age: BIG DATA

CIS is everywhere – Industry / Government

7

Typical router:• 42 bytes/second

• 3.5 Gigabytes/day

Internet Traffic

• 8 Billion pages• 10kB/Page• 8 TB of indexed text

WebSocial Networks

Mobile Apps

CIS is Everywhere – Web

• Sky surveys• 120 GB/week, 6.5 TB/year

Astronomy

Genomics

Remote Sensing

• Air, Land, Ocean• 100s GBs /day

Drug Discovery

• 2M of compounds• > 100M interactions

• 25K genes, 3B base pairs• 8B humans• thousands of organisms

Participatory Sensing

CIS is Everywhere – Science

Fall 2013CIS 1001: Introduction to Academics in Computer Science

Class Meeting Time and Place:Friday, 10:00 am - 10:50 am, Beury Hall 160

Course Web Site:http://cis-linux2.temple.edu/cis1001/ You will be sent an email to your temple.edu address with your username and password. You will be able to change your password once you login. If you have issues with the website, contact your TA.There is also a blackboard page for the course which will contain links to the recorded video lectures.

Instructors: Course coordinator: Dr. Slobodan Vucetic, 304 Wachman Hall, vucetic@temple.edu. Office hours: Friday 11am-noon, virtual office is always open via email. Teaching Assistant: Lakesh Kansakar, lakesh.kansakar@temple.edu.

Fall 2013CIS 1001: Introduction to Academics in Computer Science.

Administrativia:•There is no required textbook.•Most lectures will be recorded and videos will be available soon after each lecture.•Grading: 14 homework assignments. The homeworks will typically be essays related to topics discussed in each lecture. Homework assignments will be posted within hours after each lecture and students will be sent an email announcement. Each homework must be submitted through the course web site by 10am the following Friday.•Attendance is required. A signup sheet will be used to record attendance. If a student signature is missing in the signup sheet for a particular lecture, it will be assumed that the student did not attend the lecture. Make sure to sign your name!!!•Each student is allowed to miss 3 lectures. For each missed lecture, the student will get a special homework assignment: watch the video lecture, do the regular homework assignment, and do an extra homework assignment.•Rules of conduct: This is a large class and discipline is essential. Please refrain from talking with your colleagues. Use of electronic devices is discouraged – if you absolutely have to use them, do it discretely and in silence. Entry to the classroom will not be permitted after 10:01am. Leaving the classroom before the end of a lecture is not allowed (unless there is a medical urgency). You will be required to agree to the rules of conduct before you can start using the course web site.

There is no free lunch• Work hard

– Get good GPA– Broaden your skills and perspective

• Make smart choices– Get internships– Do undergraduate research– Open startups

• Use resources available to you– Temple advising and help desks– Professors, TAs, Colleagues– Family and friends– Web

• Network, build your brand

Be Curious• Web is the biggest knowledge source

– It contains all known wisdom, it is there for taking, use it for your advantage – It can be a great time sink, there are many dead ends

• Some Pointers: – https://students.cis.uab.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (survival guide with many

good pointers)– http://

www.topuniversities.com/student-survival/student-life/getting-through-your-first-year-uni (student survival guide)

– http://csugsac.eng.utah.edu/survival_guide/professors.html (student survival guide)– https://sites.google.com/site/princetoncsmajors/jobs/interviewing (interviewing)– http://oedb.org/fast-track-careers-computer-science (careers in CS)– http://

emmaus.patch.com/articles/five-things-to-know-about-the-future-of-computer-science (CS future)

– http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/gradstudy/gradstudy.pdf (graduate school)

Be Curious

• MOOCs– Coursera– Udacity– http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N34/education.html

(free high quality courses)

Homework 1Your first homework assignment will have several parts:• Sign an contract• Complete a survey to tell us a bit about yourself. You can access the

survey here (you can also access it following a link at the topbar)• Read the first 2 chapters of book "Blown to Bits" by H. Abelson, K.

Ledeen, H. Lewis. Write a 100-word essay discussing the most interesting aspects covered in the two chapters. You can position your essay as an argument for or against some of the statements or as your emotional or rational reaction to what you read. The book can be downloaded from http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/. Submit your essay here (you can also access it from the sidebar on your left).

• Enroll a Coursera or Udacity Course