School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

1. School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://women.cs.cmu.edu/

2. Who We Are Jana Stephen Edward Gabi

3. Who is a Computer Scientist? ? Ready to guess

5. YES! CMU Professor Danny Sleator

7. YES! Professor Valerie Taylor, Head of CS Dept., Texas A&M University

9. Yes! Professor Richard Tapia, Rice University

11. No! Professor Tiziana Di Matteo She’s an Astro Physicist

13. YES! Professor Muthu (Muthukrishnan), Rutgers University and Google

15. What Is Computer Science?

16. Computer Science is all about solving problems… …and using the computer to solve some very difficult problems.

17. Computer Science is about problem solving Lets solve a problem! In computer science we build Algorithms… a sequence of steps/instructions to solve a problem

18. Problem Solving A farmer has to get a sheep, a carrot and a wolf over the river to the grassy field. BUT he can only take one of them with him at a time …

19. Problem Solving • The wolf will eat the sheep • The sheep will eat the carrot BUT if left alone,

20. Getting Everyone Across River Alive!

21. Who Uses the Internet? Who Uses E-mail and IM?

22. Here’s the BAD news… • Crime has also gone online …

23. Many Computer Scientists Work on Internet Safety

24. Cryptography Key A = N B = O C = P D = Q E = R F = S G = T H = U I = V J = W K = X L = Y M = Z Can you break the code? UNPXRE

25. Cryptography Key A = N B = O C = P D = Q E = R F = S G = T H = U I = V J = W K = X L = Y M = Z Can you break the code? UNPXRE HACKER

26. CAPTCHAS and The Turing Test Have you seen these tests before? What are they doing? The CAPTCHA & reCAPTCHA projects was developed by computer scientists from the Aladdin Center at Carnegie Mellon http://www.captcha.net

27. Testing the Difference Between Humans and Computers The CAPTCHA & reCAPTCHA projects was developed by computer scientists from the Aladdin Center at Carnegie Mellon http://www.captcha.net

28. It’s Magic! … or is it?

29. The Magic of Computer Science! For tricks and information check out: Computer Science Computer Science for Fun Unplugged http://www.cs4fn.org/ http://csunplugged.org/

30. What Does Computer Science have to do with Art?

31. Computer Animated Films...

32. Computer Animated Films

33. …are made by Computer Scientists

34. Computer Animated Films What do you think is the most difficult thing for animators to work on? HAIR!

35. What Does Computer Science have to do with Sports?

36. Motion Analysis

37. Does your computer ever make you feel like this?

38. Computer scientists can help!

39. Human-Computer Interaction Design, Psychology, Computer Science

40. What is Programming? • A computer can only do what it is told to do • A program is a set of instructions telling a machine what to do • Programming involves learning how to write instructions that do specific tasks • COMPUTER SCIENCE IS SO MUCH MORE!

41. Let’s program the robot to make a sandwich! The robot can only do exactly what you tell him to do!

42. ….another CS-Related Topic Did you know that problem solving using computers can help save the environment?

43. Going for a Drive • You drive to an intersection where you can turn left or right. • Which turn is faster to make?

44. Going for a Drive • If you turn left, how many lanes do you have to cross?

45. Going for a Drive • How about a right turn?

46. Not Going Left • Saves a little gas every turn • UPS uses computer algorithms to figure out how to go right 90% of the time • Saves 3,000,000 gallons of gas per year

47. Plan Sense Act Robotics Camera Sonar Laser range-finders Planning Scheduling Machine Learning Manipulation Locomotion Navigation

48. Plan Sense Act Robotics Camera Sonar Laser range-finders Planning Scheduling Machine Learning Manipulation Locomotion Navigation

49. Some of our favorite Robots

50. What field has …? • The best-rated job, and 5 of the top 10 • highest paid, highest growth jobs? • Shown strong job growth? • A severe shortage in college graduates? Computer Science!