This seminar will examine the Bloomsbury Group,;the most important British cultural formation in;the first half of the twentieth-century. The;group included artists, art critics, biographers,;economists, literary critics, novelists,;philosophers and translators such as Vanessa;Bell, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, George;Moore, Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, and;Virginia Woolf. We will emphasize the ways in;which they sought to dismantle the artistic,;political, and sexual repressions of the;Victorian period and to replace them with new;forms of art, community, and society.

How does Google respond to search queries so;quickly? How does the power grid maintain;stability when a tree falls on a wire?;Distributed systems solve big problems by;facilitating cooperation between independent;agents towards a common goal. This course covers;major principles of distributed systems: resource;contention, concurrent action, scheduling, and;communicating. Students will put theory into;practice designing, implementing, and debugging;distributed systems. This course is programming;intensive.

Introduction to the field of computer science;with a data science theme. Introduces students to;algorithms,;basic data structures, and programming;techniques.

Introduction to the field of computer science;with a theme of humanities computing. Introduces;students to algorithms, basic data structures,;and programming techniques. Students will explore;solving problems that arise in humanities;disciplines: various forms of text analysis,;image;manipulation, animation, and sound manipulation.

Introduction to the field of computer science;with a theme of computing in;medicine. Introduces students to algorithms,;basic data structures, and programming;techniques. Students will explore solving;problems that arise in areas such as;bioinformatics, robotic prosthesis, and analyzing;bioelectric signals.