Informational meeting for Spring Course CS447/ME325 d Informational meeting for Spring Course CS447/ME325 d.school (Sweet Hall) Wed. February 21, 5:30 Come meet the faculty and other interested students, learn about the course, see the d.school, and enjoy some food and drink with us CS477 (also ME325) is a unique opportunity offered by the d.school ( Hasso Plattner Institute of Design). SAP co-founder, Hasso Plattner, along with Professor Terry Winograd, and SAP Executive Vice President, Zia Yusuf will bring their unique perspectives to the class. Interdisciplinary student teams will apply design thinking and user-centered methodologies to the full software system and lifecyle, including its construction, distribution, and the social and organizational implementation. Students will develop composite software prototypes that explore real-world opportunities for city governments to better serve their citizens. Students will engage with city officials from Palo Alto and Mountain View and leading industry experts to co-create real systems on industrial-strength platforms, In addition, the class will travel to Atlanta to attend SAP’s Sapphire event, where 15,000 participants from both the business and technical worlds come together with SAP experts, customers, and solution providers to discuss best practices and learn about the future of enterprise software. Admittance to this course is by application at http://hci.stanford.edu/cs447 Applications are due by March 5 See http://dsoftware.stanford.edu for more information