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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers |
Augusto Blaas Corrêa (augusto.blaascorrea@unibas.ch)
Malte Helmert (malte.helmert@unibas.ch, Assessor) Florian Pommerening (florian.pommerening@unibas.ch) |
| Content | The Turing Award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science", is the most prestigious technical award in Computer Science. Since 1966, it has been awarded annually for major contributions of lasting importance to computing. In this seminar, we study the Turing Award laureates and their contributions. Each participant gives a presentation and writes a report that discuss these major contributions to Computer Science and the people behind them, with each student focusing on one laureate (or team of laureates). The participants also delve deeper into their topic in a programming project. |
| Learning objectives | * Reading and understanding scientific literature. * Independent solution of programming projects. * Preparing and presenting scientific talks. * Conducting scientific discussions with peers. * Writing and discussing scientific reports. |
| Bibliography | Will be provided during the seminar. |
| Admission requirements | The number of participants is limited to 20. Students in the B.Sc. Computer Science that still need the mandatory 6 credit points from seminars are given priority if they enrol until September 20, 2020. Programming skills are required for the project component of the course. |
| Course application | registration via https://services.unibas.ch |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Applications and Related Topics (Bachelor's degree subject: Computer Science) Module: Applications and Related Topics (Bachelor's Studies: Computer Science) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular attendance of the seminar sessions is required to obtain credit points for the course. Seminar participants must - write a written report on their seminar topic (25%) - give a presentation on their topic (25%) - give written feedback (peer review) on another participant's report (15%) - submit the implementation of their programming project (25%) - give a short presentation on their programming project (10%) All five aspects are individually graded on a scale of 1.0-6.0. The overall seminar grade is the weighted average of these individual grades, using the weighting shown in parentheses. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration, dereg: cancel course registration |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | 1-6 0,5 |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Science, studiendekanat-philnat@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Informatik |