ICS 90: The First-Year Seminar

Fall 2011

Richard E. Pattis and David G. Kay


ICS 90 will introduce you to the faculty and programs of the Bren School of ICS.
It will collect and present vital information in one convenient package to help you
get the most out of your time at UCI. Typically, Rich and David will talk for one
hour about assorted topics, and a guest lecturer will speak for the other hour.

Why you should consider ICS 90 (flyer)

Instructors

David Kay (kay@uci.edu)
Rich Pattis (pattis@ics.uci.edu)

Student Expectations

ICS-90 is a 1 unit course graded as either P/NP (pass/not pass).
There are no assignm ents nor exams, but you must attend all classes
(we will take attendance daily). If you are unable to attend any
particular class, please email one of the instructors.


Speaker schedule for this quarter

Date Speaker Topic
9/23 David Kay and Rich Pattis
Deva Ramanan
 Overview of the Course ( Rich's Slides)
Computer Vision ( Prof. Ramanan's Slides)
9/30 Wayne Hayes High Performance Scientific Computing in Physics, Astronomy, and Biology
10/ 7 Vivien Chan UCI Counseling
Rick Lathrop		 Introduction to the UCI Counseling Center( Dr. Chan's Slides)
Intelligent Systems and Molecular Biology( Prof. Lathrop's Slides)
10/14 Mike Carey Database Systems: A Vertical Slice of Computer Science( Prof. Carey's Slides )
10/21 Walt Scacchi UCI's Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds( Prof. Scacchi's Slides)
See also Game-Based Virtual Worlds as Decentralized Virtual Activity Systems
Computer Game Mods, Modders, Modding, and the Mod Scence
10/28 Alex Ihler AI and Machine Learning( Prof. Ihler's Slides )
11/ 4   9:00am Hal Stern
  9:30am Sandy Irani
10:00am Bill Tomlinson		 Dean of Informationand Computer Science
Chair of Computer Science Department
IT and (Un)sustainable Cultures( Prof. Tomlinson's Slides)
11/11 No Class Veterans' Day
11/18   9am Don Patterson Micropresence
11/25 No Class Thanksgiving
12/ 2   9am Nik Dutt
10am Melissa Mazmanian		 How Computers Can help Reverse Engineer the Brain( Prof. Dutt's Slides )
Smartphones and "crackberries": Understanding our impulse for constant connectivity and the myth of "addiction" to wireless email( Prof. Mazmanian's Slides )