資訊科學特論（英文授課）
Special Topics in Computer Science

1. Course objectives: This course aims to provide a series of interviews with researchers, practitioners, and innovators who are at the intersection of computing research and practice. These interviews are hosted by ACM’s Practitioner Board, and guests share their experiences, the lessons they’ve learned, and their own visions for the future of computing. Students are expected to learn there are many fascinating areas in computer sciences, and see how technologies were developed by these pioneers to current status.
2. Credit: 3
3. Teaching approach: Oral Presentation & Team Discussion
4. Classroom: TC-321
5. Instructor: Dr. Quincy Wu
6. Prerequisites: None
7. Grading criteria: Participation (30%), Oral Presentation (30%), Term Project (40%)
8. References:
   • ACM Learning Center (https://learning.acm.org/)
   • ACM-W Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn0nrSd4xjjZ2EVtP30-jRw4px7XGFVpy)
9. 本課程可達成本系教育目標：
   • 3. 培養具備國際視野、工程倫理、人文關懷及社會責任的科技人才
10. 本課程可培養學生之核心能力(Core competency)如下列:
    • 4. 具備使用英文閱讀資訊領域技術文件的能力
    • 6. 理解資訊工程專業倫理、敬業態度、環境保護及社會責任
11. Remarks: English will be the working language in this class.

Syllabus

• (Week 1) Introduction
• (Week 2) Episode 1: John Hennessy & David Patterson (2017 Turing Award)
  • [Engadget] RISC-V
  • [IEEE] Dennard Scaling
  • [YouTube] Magnetic Core Memory
  • [IEEE] Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
  • [New Yorker] The Friendship that Made Google Huge
• (Week 3) Episode 2: Donald Knuth (1974 Turing Award, The Art of Computer Programming)
  1. [YouTube] Dancing Links
• (Week 4) Episode 3: Radia Perlman (Spanning Tree Protocol on Ethernet)
  • [YouTube] 2016 NIHF (National Inventors Hall of Fame) Inductee - Radia Perlman (2:41)
  • [YouTube] Radia Perlman Profile, 2014 Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer (6:27)
  • [YouTube] Interview with Radia Perlman (24:32)
  • [YouTube] Radia Perlman - "Computer Networks: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries" (55:33) (TCSDLS 2018-2019)
• (Week 5) Episode 4: Kristian Lum (Human Right Data Analysis Group)
  1. Welcome Kristian Lum! - Penn Computer & Information
  2. [YouTube] Kristian Lum: Data Bias & AI
  3. [YouTube] Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)
• (Week 6) Episode 5: Theo Scholssnagle (Circonus)
  1. [YouTube] Test-Driven Design (TDD)
  2. [YouTube] Why Businesses Choose SparkPost As Their Email Delivery Service
  3. Theo Schlossnagle, "A Career in Web Operations", Velocity Europe 2011.
• Episode 6: Robin Murphy (Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue)
  • no transcript
• (Week 8) Episode 7: Shwetak Patel (Whole-House Sensing)
  1. [YouTube] ACM Prize in Computing 2018 (2:58)
  2. [YouTube] 7th HLF Laureate interviews: Shwetak Patel (33:38)
  3. [CNN] Georgia Tech Aware Home (1:15)
  4. [ACM TechTalk] The Emerging Role of Mobile Computing in Health (1:03:42)
• (Week 3) Episode 8: Jennifer Widom (Music to CS, Databases MOOC on edX)
  1. [edX] Databases: Relational Databases and SQL
     • [YouTube] Introduction to Databases - Jennifer Widom
  2. Travelog on Jennifer Widom's webpage in Stanford
• (Week 10) Midterm Exam
• (Week 4) Episode 9: Vint Cerf (2004 Turing Award)
  1. [YouTube] Von Neumann Architecture
  2. [YouTube] ARPANET
  3. [YouTube] How the Internet Began (9:09)
  4. [CACM] The "Narrow Waist" Hourglass Model
  5. [TED] Inter-planetary Internet (8:49)
• (Week 12) Episode 10: Maria Klawe (President of Harvey Mudd College)
  1. Harvey Mudd College - Campus Tour
  2. A Day in the Life: Harvey Mudd Student
  3. IBM Research @ San Jose
• (Week 13) Episode 11: Jeffrey Heer (Visualization, DS.js)
  1. Trifacta Overview (1:56)
  2. D3.js in 100 Seconds (2:19)
  3. The Future of Data Visualization (10:10)
• (Week 14) Episode 12: Denae Ford (Software Development + HCI)
  1. Stack Overflow Mentorship Program
  2. Triplett's Social Facilitation Theory
  3. [GitHub] Pull Requests
• (Week 15) Episode 13: Ramesh Raskar (Computer Vision)
  1. Jurassic Park
  2. South Park
  3. Solomon Inverse Problem
  4. [YouTube] light traveling through a plastic bottle
  5. [TED] Imaging at a trillion frames per second
  6. SPAD camera in iPhone
  7. Waze Map
  8. EyeNetra
  9. Rethinking Engineering Design Execution (REDX)
  10. Idea Hexagon
• (Week 16) Episode 14: Luis von Ahn
  • Keyword: CAPTCHA, re-CAPTCHA, Duolingo
  • [YouTube] State of Duolingo (18:03)
• (Week 17) Episode 15: Suchi Saria (Machine Learning and Healthcare)
  • Suchi Saria at Johns Hopkins University.
  • [TEDxBoston] Better Medicine Through Machine Learning (17:56)
  • [TEDMED] Bringing AI to the bedside (18:55)
• (Week 18) Term Project Presentation
• Episode 16: Leslie Lamport (2013 Turing Award)
  • [YouTube] LaTeX (14:18)
  • TLA+
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, Marshall Pease, The Byzantine Generals Problem, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, July 1982, pp. 382-401.
  • Dijkstra’s dining philosopher’s problem
  • Leslie Lamport's Time Clocks paper
• Episode 17: Bryan Cantrill (OS Kernel Developer)
  1. Technical Debt
  2. Oracle Linux: DTrace Tutorial
  3. [YouTube] Oracle Learning, Using DTrace for Linux, Nov 3, 2015.
  4. [YouTube] George V. Neville-Neil, Teaching Systems Software with FreeBSD and DTrace, Dec 8, 2016.
  5. John Markoff, "Sun Microsystems Is Moving To an 'Open Source' Model", New York Times, Dec. 8, 1998.
  6. Angus Loten, "Supreme Court Decision Affirms Open-Source’s Role in Modern Software Development", The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2021.
• (Week 1) Episode 18: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify)
  1. [TIME] Everything You Need to Know About Spotify, June 3, 2015.
  2. Mounia Lalmas, "Evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness at INEX", ACM SIGIR Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, June 2007, pp. 40–57.