CUrrent Course

Fall 2021. COMPSCI 290 Special Topics: Great Ideas in Computer Science

This is an undergraduate course that gives an introduction to computer science from the perspective of the big ideas, conflicts, and questions that computer science has brought to the fore: the course will include discussions on the historical perspective of the emergence of computer science and its meteoric rise in less than a century, how computer science relates to mathematics, engineering, and other branches of science, the role of computer science in shaping human thought and knowledge in a modern world, and some of the big futuristic questions that computer science faces today in theory and practice.