Speaker:	Dr. Mark Guzdial
Title:	Introduction to Media Computing: Teaching Computer Science with a DSP Accent to Non-Engineering Majors
Date:	October 3, 2003
Time:	4:00 pm
Location:	GCATT Room 325
Abstract:	CS1315 "Introduction to Media Computation" is a new course aimed at teaching programming and computation ideas to non-CS and non-Engineering majors at Georgia Tech.  The students learn to do Photoshop-style image manipulations, splice sounds, do background subtraction, write code to download and grab substrings from HTML page, and make simple movies and animations.  Our focus is on computation for communication, rather than  calculation.  The course has been successful in that it has interested students, especially women, in CS who have typically been turned off by CS and unsuccessful at more traditional CS1's.
Biography:	Mark Guzdial is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Mark is a member of the GVU Center, the Cognitive Science program, and the EduTech Institute. He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993, where he developed Emile, an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. He is also the designer of MediaText, a multimedia composition environment used in elementary and high school classrooms.
Slides:	sem10_03_2003_Mark_Guzdial.ppt