CS at Davidson
List 10 different Computer Science professors.
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In this best-selling novel, Georgetown Computer Science professor Cal Newport uses research about Silicon Valley’s profit strategies to argue for technology detoxes
Digital Minimalism
Paste
Control + V
This comedy follows the main character and his friends while they try to develop a startup called Pied Piper.
Silicon Valley
Name the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.
ENIAC
In what year did computer science become a major at Davidson?
2016
This book is Amazon’s #1 best-selling interview book and was written by a software engineer at Google
Cracking the Coding Interview
Select all
Control + A:
This thriller follows a police team that utilizes an algorithm to predict crime before it happens while also discussing the ethical implications of that algorithm.
Person of Interest
Name this robot which has been criticized for misleading the public about its intelligence and which became a Saudi Arabian citizen in 2017.
Sophia
How many classes in the theory category are required to graduate with a major in computer science?
0
In this book, Safiya Noble argues that search engines perpetuate racial bias through their algorithms.
Algorithms of Oppression
Search for a term in a document
Command + F
This series consults with actual hackers in order to make the hacktivist activities of the main character seem real.
Mr. Robot
Name this teapot which became a popular choice for cameos in computer-generated movies and television shows due to its status as an iconic test for Computer Graphics algorithms.
Utah Teapot
Name three electives in the CS major which also count for credit in the Math major.
Math Modeling, Machine Reasoning, Machine Learning, Cryptology, Theory of Computation, Numerical Analysis
Published in 1981, this Pulitzer Prize winning book recounts the true story behind Data General’s race to complete a new 32-bit superminicomputer.
The Soul of a New Machine
Open a new tab while in a search engine
Command + T
This series from the early 2000s chronicles the lives of five characters during the computing revolution in the 1980s and follows them from a Texas-based electronics company to California.
Halt & Catch Fire
In contrast to popular myths, the phrase “bug” actually predated Grace Hopper’s discovery of this type of insect in Harvard’s Mark II computer.
Moth
There are three electives in CS major which also count towards the Data Science minor. Name two.
Database Systems, Data Visualization, Machine Learning
This 20th century Boston University professor has been described as “the single most important fiction writer” to write about computers such as in his “Multivac” stories.
Isaac Asimov
How to kill a running command in the Terminal (hint: also used for another common operation)
Control + C
More often than not, tv shows do a laughably bad job at portraying computer usage. One fun example is this crime show which during a season 2 episode featured the team successfully avoiding being hacked by unplugging their computer.
NCIS
The use of this object in debugging code was popularized by The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master as a form of “pair” programming.
Rubber duck