NEXT TALK: February 15, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, room 1064
Technically Speaking: Have Your Cake And Eat It Toospeaker: Steven Rudich The ideal lecture is a lesson in efficiency. There are skills to be imparted. Habits of thinking to be imprinted. Confidence to be built. Philosophical and historical perspective to be shared. Questions to be answered. Comments to be heard. Funny stories to be told. Great ideas to be explained, perhaps even demystfied. The ideal lecture distills and codifies the methods behind creative discovery and innovation. Passionate teachers everywhere, each an artist, will craft their individual approximations of the ideal lecture. How does one approach such an ideal? This is especially intimidating in a technical domain. If I am clearer and simpler, must I say proportionally less? Must entertainment always be at the cost of substance? How can one cope with the wide range of preparedness of the students? With methodical empathy, diligent preparation, and thoughtful subgoals, you can have your cake and eat it too. There is no free lunch: you must work hard to be easy! This talk will argue that it is possible to be seductively simple, yet uncompromisingly ambitious.
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 Steven Rudich is a professor at CMU Pittsburgh where he is best known amongst students for teaching 'Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science.' Prof. Rudich was awarded the Gödel prize in 2007 for his work in computational complexity theory, and was selected by the Mathematical Association of America as the 2004 George Polya Lecturer. He founded the Andrew's Leap program which introduces gifted high school students to theoretical aspects of Computer Science. Prof. Rudich is a recipient of the Ryan Award for excellence in teaching and is an accomplished magician. |
Upcoming Seminars
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February 15, Technically Speaking: Have Your Cake And Eat It Too,
Steven Rudich
Past Seminars
- February 8, Using Models of Rodent Hippocampus for Robot Navigation,
Gordon Wyeth, download flyer - February 2, Green, power-aware, multi-processor systems,
Rami Melhem, download flyer - February 1, Enabling Ubiquitous Mobile Services
Hossam Hassanein - January 25, Hacked! Things to learn from Google vs China
Ryan Riley, download flyer - January 18, Evaluation of Introductory Programming Courses in Computer Science
Saquib Razak - January 11, Online Artificial Learning in Distributed Systems: Moving from Theory to Practice
Jacob Crandall, download flyer
