Things a computer scientist rarely talks about

Hobbes

Forwarded onto me. If anyone's near Cambridge around that time.

From TBTF (http://tbtf.com/archive/1999-08-23.html)

Things a computer scientist rarely talks about

Donald Knuth, grand old man of computer science and possessor of one
of the great academic titles -- Professor Emeritus of The Art of
Computer Programming -- will deliver what sounds to be a fascinating
series of lectures this fall. Knuth has titled his talks for the God
and Computers lecture series [15] "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely
Talks About" [16]. The lectures are on Wednesday afternoons beginning
on 1999-10-06:

October 6: Introduction
October 13: Randomization and Religion
October 27: Language Translation
November 3: Aesthetics
December 1: Glimpses of God
December 8: God and Computer Science

The lectures will be held at MIT building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street,
Cambridge, MA on Wednesdays beginning at 4:15 pm with refreshments.
They are free and open to the public.

[15] http://web.mit.edu/bpadams/www/gac/
[16] http://web.mit.edu/bpadams/www/gac/lecture_seriesiii.html

Gyck

Sounds interesting. But scary.

Hecate

anyone ever seen the DCU prospectus for the compapps course?

it reads somthing similar, *ahem*:

Intelligent Pattern Matching

Intelligent pattern matching fuses traditional statistical methods with modern artificial intelligence techniques to enable systems to extract patterns and knowledge from complex data. As a course, IPM is application orientated, describing how various pattern-matching paradigms from the statistical distillation paradigm of Bayesian reasoning, to the exemplar-based paradigms of neural networks and memory-based reasoning can be applied to real world problems.

I'm sure its very easy to understand once you get into it