Speaker: Dr. Sridhar Narayan CSC 100 Orientation to Computer Science Welcome My name I’m here to tell you a little bit about what Computer Science is. What would it be like to be a computer science major at UNCW? What would your life be like if you majored in Computer Science? Just what is Computer Science. Before I start talking about what Computer Science, there is something we need to talk about : Jobs Because of all the talk of out-sourcing and the .dot-com crash, many people became leery of the technology sector. Is the job environment good? What will it be like 5 years from now? 10 years? In answering this question, you’ll see that I have a scientific disposition when it comes to answering questions like that. Computer Science is a Science. What does that mean? What do scientists do? What is a scientific disposition? What we do: Make hypotheses and then test them. So here’s a hypothesis you may have heard today: <NEXT SLIDE> Speaker: Dr. Sridhar Narayan

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Dr. Sridhar Narayan Education Chair of Computer Science Dept. B.T. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science (Clemson) Chair of Computer Science Dept. Research Interests Neural Networks Genetic Algorithms Signal Processing Object-Oriented Programming