Participants learn how to program, learn about the different areas of computer science, and meet other computer science students.
It is felt that if the basic knowledge taught through the core course of PDC is supplemented with the discussion of PDC topics in integration with other computer science courses, then it will not only provide the students with more opportunities to 'think in parallel', but will also motivate them to harness the best of PDC.
As I wrote last month, when I asked the organizers of a recent data mining workshop as to why they did not require ethical review or replication datasets for their submissions, one of the organizers, a Bloomberg data scientist, responded only that the majority of other ACM computer science conferences don't either.
It requires new approaches in some aspects of programming and other areas of computer science – but it will enable new applications, such as fast, cheap processing of stereo vision.
And they've probably been behind a lot of the more dramatic high-profile successes of deep learning and other kind of computer science efforts to model perception, and action, and so forth, right?
The promise of artificial intelligence and other branches of computer science is to radically transform conventional discovery environments by equipping scientists with a range of powerful computer tools including large-scale, shared knowledge bases and discovery programs.
The idea, they say, is to make the introductory course enjoyable and interesting enough that women who were thinking of other majors choose computer science instead.
VR also holds huge potential for invigorating learning of other subjects beyond computer science.
The discipline combines numerical analysis, symbolic mathematical computations, computer graphics, and other areas of computer science to make it easier to set up, solve, and interpret complicated mathematical models of the real world.
