You are cordially welcome to attend the talk by Prof Brian A. Barsky on various aspects of computer science teaching and research at University California Berkeley.
Date: Monday, 8th August 2011
Time: 1:00PM ~ 1:45PM
Venue: IDK5, Kampar Campus,Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Speaker: Prof. Brian A. Barsky
Brian A. Barsky is Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science at the UC Berkeley. His research interests include computer aided geometric design and modeling, interactive three-dimensional computer graphics, visualization in
scientific computing, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, and virtual environments for surgical simulation.
Abstract:
In his talk, Prof. Barsky will share some of his insights and experience as a senior academic staff on various aspects of computer science teaching and research at UC Berkeley, which has been consistently one of the top ranked computer science schools in the United States and globally. UC Berkeley staff and alumni have garnered a total of 15 Turing awards (which is considered to be the "Nobel Prize" of computing) since its inception. It has been the source of common computer science products such as Berkeley Unix, relational databases, RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks), Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) and Simulation Program with
Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE).
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