Perspectives on Computing

Overview

The students will get the opportunity to gain a broader perspective on the subject of computing science - to see something of the wood as well as the trees; to see a number of case studies of how computing ideas are put together in novel ways or to address more sophisticated applications.

Learning Outcomes

This non-examined course gives students a broader overview of the areas in which Computer Science ideas can be applied, sometimes including a look ahead to more advanced material than can be studied in detail in later years. The course is organised as a sequence of four segments of four lectures, each segment given by a different lecturer. The topics vary from year to year, but typically some segments are given by invited speakers from other departments in Oxford or from industry. Possible topics include: graphics and visualisation, computer security, speech recognition, natural language processing, DNA sequence analysis, neural computing, data mining, medical image analysis, databases and knowledge representation, quantum computing.

Timetable of lectures for Trinity Term
Timetable of lectures for Hilary Term