The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science

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The University of Texas at AustinDepartment of
Computer Science
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Roadshow Goals

• Introduce the field of Computer Science
• Get you excited about Computer Science!!!

Thank you to the Women_at_SCS from Carnegie Mellon
University for slides from their Outreach
Roadshow!
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The Roadshow Team
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J Moore
Mechanical theorem proving and its use to verify
computing systems
Grand Canyon
Annapurna
Machhapuchhre
Nepal
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Calvin Lin
Compilers, focusing on security and scalable
precise analysis
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Kristen Grauman
Computer vision, unsupervised visual discovery,
cooperative learning for vision systems
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Peter Stone
Artificial intelligence, autonomous agents that
learn to interact in dynamic environments
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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in
Computing
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First Bytes Summer Camp
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Once Upon a Time
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How many computers do you own?
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How many computers do you own?
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Technology Improves Rapidly
2001, 5GB
2010, 160GB
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Technology Improves Rapidly
Legend of Zelda, 1986
Twilight Princess, 2006
Tecmo Bowl, 1989
Madden NFL 09 2008
Final Fantasy, 1990
Final Fantasy XII, 2006
R.C. Pro-Am 1988
Project Gotham Racing 4 2007
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What can you do with Computer Science?
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The Brain Computer Science
We can use computers to model parts of the
brain, helping us to advance medicine,
neuroscience and our understanding of cognition.
Biology Computer Science
We can use computer science to find patterns in
DNA, model biological systems, determine the
structure of molecules, and much, much more
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Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
The Captcha Project was developed by computer
scientists from the Aladdin Center at Carnegie
Mellon http//www.captcha.net
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Graphics Art Computer Science
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Games
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Computers help people every day
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Getting computers to do what you want them to do
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In a nutshell
Break the solution into steps (Algorithm)
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RoboCup and Aibo Dogs
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The Robot Sony Aibo
Speaker and microphone
Electrostatic sensors
Infrared range sensors
3 acceleration sensors (x, y, and z)
Switch sensors
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The Robot Sony Aibo

• Color camera
• Resolution 208 x 160
• 30 frames per second

Wireless ethernet (802.11b)

• On-board processor
• 576 MHz
• 64 MB RAM
• OS Aperios Open-R
• Programming Language C

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Vision
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Getting the dogs to walk

• Guess how the dog ought to move its legs
• How fast?
• What joints in what order?
• How many legs at once? Which ones?
• The dogs walk like Frankenstein!
• How do we get them to move quickly
• (and smoothly)?

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Running Fast

• Running is a complex behavior
• So have the dogs learn on their own!

This is called machine learning (AI)
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Science Behind RoboCup

• How do the Aibo dogs know
• where they are?
• where the other players are?
• What are good team strategies?

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RoboCup Soccer
4-Legged League
Small-sized League
Humanoid League
Middle-sized League
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Humanoid League
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RoboCup Goal

• By the year 2050, develop a team of fully
  autonomous humanoid robots that can win against
  the human world champion soccer team.

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Can We Achieve this Goal?
1903
1969
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Austin Villa Robot Soccer Team

• Competes in RoboCup
• Research
• Localization
• Use human motor skills to train robots
• Illumination-invariant vision
• Advice based on opponent modeling

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Consider Computing

• It can lead you to an exciting career where you
  can
• Help people
• Be creative
• Be part of a team
• Do research
• Develop cool new digital devices
• Change the world

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What should I be doing now?
High School
College
After college

• Excel in math and science courses
• Breakfast bytes
• Program with Alice

• Industry

• Internships
• Research

- OR -

• Graduate School
• Masters
• PhD

• Take CS Courses
• First Bytes camp

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Thank you!
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Questions?
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Programming with Alice

• USB device for each student
• Example to get you started
• Use your creativity from there!
• Best world wins a prize

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Breakfast Bytes

• Students, parents, teachers
• Free bagels, donuts, beverages
• Interactive talks by UT Professors
• 9/27 Mike Scott, Creating Virtual Worlds
• 11/1 Lorenzo Alvisi, The Long March of the
  Byzantine Generals
• 12/06 Kristen Grauman, Computers with Vision

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Sports
How can computer science help Quarterback Tony
Romo improve his game?