CSP Materials
(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 20:52
Data Mining: Reading Description: An introductory lecture on data mining from a course called the "Principles of Knowledge Discovery in Databases" at University of Alberta by Dr. Osmar Zaiane.
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 23:40
IBM's Watson: Reading Description: This article from the New York Times discusses the story behind IBM's new Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, and why natural language processing is such a hard problem in computer science ...
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 23:36
NOVA: VIDEO Description: The Great Robot Race is a documentary about the DARPA Grand Challenge in which autonomous vehicles participate in a 100+ mile race across the Mojave desert: "Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the...
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 21:34
Blown To Bits: Appendix Description: A detailed but accessible description of how the internet works.
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 20:00
Reading Description: Before the early 2000's, processors became faster mostly by simply cranking the clock rate up. However, around 2003, processors hit the ceiling of the current technology. In order to keep increasing computing power,...
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 19:54
How Stuff Works: Reading An explanation of the market and technological dynamics underpinning Moore's Law.
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 17:46
Reading November, 2010 Article from MSNBC about Microsoft's Kinect. Discusses what makes it special (software) and what lies in its future.
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(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 17:41
Reading Snippet: May, 2010 This article examines the fusion of creativity and technology during the production of Toy Story 3.
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