Introductory and inspiring session for students on computer science
Date: 19th March 2013
Event: IT workshop for high school students
Venue: President's College, Maharagama
Organized by: Society of Computer Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Power of Code: What you don’t know about what you know
1. what you don’t know about what you know
by CD Athuraliya
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2. Be amazed with Computer Science
Supercomputing
Artificial Intelligence
Gaming
Computer Security
Free and Open Source Community
Robotics
3. Artificial Intelligence - IBM Watson
While Watson's victory on Jeopardy! was a stunning feat, it was just the beginning of a new way of thinking about ways that technology can help us live and work better.
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/putting_watson_to_work.shtml
5. Robotics - Mars Science Laboratory
With its rover named Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet's "habitability.“
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/
6. Robotics - Mars Science Laboratory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU
7. Computer Security - Cryptography
The art of protecting information by transforming it (encrypting it) into an unreadable format, called cipher text. Only those who possess a secret key can decipher (or decrypt) the message into plain text. Encrypted messages can sometimes be broken by cryptanalysis, also called codebreaking, although modern cryptography techniques are virtually unbreakable.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cryptography.html
Decode: pdkdudjdpd
8. Computer Security - Caesar Cipher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOZf4GN3oc
9. Computer Games
PC games, also known as computer games, are video games played on a general-purpose personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine. Their defining characteristics include a lack of any centralized controlling authority and greater capacity in input, processing, and output. PC games reached widespread popularity following the video game crash of 1983, particularly in Europe, leading to the era of the "bedroom coder". From the mid-90s onward they lost mass-market traction to console games before enjoying a resurgence in the mid-2000s through digital distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_game
10. Computer Games – Halo 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapBZBZNkp0
11. Free and Open Source Community
GNU is a Unix-like operating system that is free software—it respects your freedom. You can install Linux- based versions of GNU which are entirely free software. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop the GNU system. The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!”. "GNU" is pronounced g'noo, as one syllable, like saying "grew" but replacing the r with n. A Unix-like operating system is a software collection of applications, libraries, and developer tools, plus a program to allocate resources and talk to the hardware, known as a kernel.
http://www.gnu.org/
12. Free and Open Source - Linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE
13. Be inspired by people
Sergey Brin
Mark Zuckerberg
Linus Torvalds
Steve Jobs
Alan Turing
Richard Stallman
14. Be inspired by people…
Dr. Kasun de Zoysa
Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana
Prof. Gihan Wikramanayake
Dr. Ruwan Weerasinghe
Prof. V. K. Samaranayake