Plato Royal Lecture Series Schedule

Date	Speaker	Readings
May 28th	Caroline Wardle Gender Issues in C.S.	1) Read the book Unlocking the Clubhouse by Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher 2) A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT
May 21st	Craig Hickman University of Oregon Department of Fine and Applied Arts Graphics, Interactivity and Software Development	User Interface Innovations Apple user interface history GUI History GUI History2 Gui Screens
May 14th	Mike Wolfe STMicroelectronics, Portland OR New Architectures How is a Cell Phone like a Supercomputer?	General Notes on Computer Architecture www-courses.cs.uiuc.edu/~cs231/lectures www-courses.cs.uiuc.edu/~cs232/lectures System Architecture: www-courses.cs.uiuc.edu/~cs333/lectures Intel Itanium developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/idfisa.htm NEC Earth Simulator www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/outline.html
May 7th	John De Oliveira Director of Marketing and Product Manager for OpenCyc at Cycorp Is AI still just a science fiction dream, or are intelligent computer systems actually coming closer to reality?	1) The Know-It-All Machine 2. A description of the Cyc Knowledge Server: 3. Introduction to the first Upper Cyc Ontology release from 5 years ago: 4. the OpenCyc vocabulary pages to get an idea of the kinds of concepts contained in Cyc optional If you're ambitious, you can go through some of the "Cyc 101" tutorials at: You can also review the syntax of the CycL language: OpenCyc documentation
April 30th	Steven Tanimoto Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle OnLine Education	1)Tools to assist in identifying and monitoring students' thinking in science and mathematics 2)Image Analysis and Teaching the Concept of Function 3)Pixels, Numbers and Programs: A freshman Introduction to Image Processing
April 23rd	Mark Tullsen, OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU Haskell, Domain Specific Languages, and Cryptographic Processors	Specification of AIM Crypto Engines http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~mtullsen/papers/hcss02.pdf The Promise of Domain Specific Languages http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak-paul/hudak-dir/dsl/index.htm .Information on the cryptographic processor we are targeting http://www.motorola.com/GSS/SSTG/ISSPD/Embedded/AIM/ Helpful to Read by Tuesday 04/23/02 - Why Functional Programming Matters
April 16th	Brian Harvey, Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.	*Required* 1) Martin Buber, Between Man and Man Chapters 3-4 2)Seymour Papert, Mindstorms Chapter 2-3 *Optional* 3)Paul Goodman, The Present Plight of a Man of Letters 4) David Sewell, New Tools for New Minds Chapter 3 5)Roger Schank & Chip Cleary, Engines for Education Chapter 2
April 9th	Teri Roberts Los Alamos National Laboratory Software Engineering Techniques for Modernizing Aging FORTRAN Applications	1) Capability Maturity Model pages 17 - 53 2)KPA (RM) Requirement Mangement 3)Face-Lift for Aging Fortran Scientific Applications
April 2nd	Cyrus Durgin Amazon.com Principles of Information Systems Security	1)Reflections on Trusting Trust 2) Computer Security -- An End State? 3)Death, Taxes and Imperfect Software: Surviving the Inevitable