A New Breadth-First Introductory Computer Science Course

Speaker:	Professor Ran LIBESKIND-HADAS
		Harvey Mudd College, Claremont,
		CA, USA

Title:		"A New Breadth-First Introductory Computer Science
		 Course"

Date:		Thursday, 15 May 2008

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre E (Cheung On Tak Lecture Theatre)
		Chia-Wei Woo Academic Concourse, HKUST

Abstract:

I will describe the motivation, design, and evaluation of a new
introductory computer science course developed at Harvey Mudd College
(HMC) - an undergraduate institution specializing in the sciences,
engineering, and mathematics.  At HMC, the course is taken by all students
in their first year, regardless of their intended major, but it is also
appropriate specifically for computer science majors. The course seeks to
demonstrate the beauty, depth, and breadth of computer science as an
intellectual discipline while simultaneously providing fundamental
programming and computational skills.


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Biography:

Ran LIBESKIND-HADAS is the Joseph B. Platt Professor of Computer Science
at Harvey Mudd College.  His area of research is in network algorithms and
bioinformatics and he has strong interests in undergraduate computer
science education.  He received the A.B. in applied mathematics from
Harvard University and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked under Professor
Chung Laung Liu.