cosc 150: science using computation instructor: dr. xenia mountrouidou 1
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COSC 150: Science Using Computation
Instructor: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou
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Who am I?• Dr. X – Computer Scientist• PhD at North Carolina State University – Optical
networks performance • Worked at IBM – Software Performance Engineer• Post doc at College of William and Mary – research on
performance and power savings for hard disk drives• Assistant professor at Jacksonville University• Assistant professor at Wofford College!• Scuba diver, manga comics collector, science fiction
reader, …hacker
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Who am I?
Topics
• Who are you and what are you looking from this course?
• Syllabus and Policies• Group activities on Syllabus• What is Computer Science?• What do Computer Scientists study?
What do they actually do?
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Syllabus Activity
• What do you think we will be doing in this class?
• What do you think we will not be doing in this class?
• What do you dread most?• What do you hope most?
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About this course
• It is not about just coding…• It is not about just science…• It is about using computation for scientific
problem solving
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What is computer science?
• “Computers are to computer science what telescopes are to astronomy.” –E. Dijkstra
• The study of what can be computed• Computer scientists… (what do they do, what
do they look like?)
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Program Power
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Science and Computation
• What is Science?• What is Computation?• What is Simulation?
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