In teaching so far, I have relied almost exclusively on textbooks and other people’s lecture notes (Jeff Erickson comes to mind, again and again) for providing materials to my students. Yes, I would recommend this to anyone who has not been teaching for too long. Preparing lecture notes that are hand-out-to-your-students worthy is time consuming! [...]
May 9, 2011
A lens on the sciences
The workshop on Theory of Computation as a Lens on the Sciences at Berkeley was this weekend. For the three people out there that haven’t seen Christos Papadimitriou’s talk on the same, I recommend it. A follow-up to a focus on the use of theoretical computer science as a methodology for study in seemingly distance fields [...]