1. What is Computing? College of Computing Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center www.cc.gatech.edu www.gvu.gatech.edu

2. What most of you think of when you hear "computing"……

3. Graphics Bioinformatics Computer Vision Robotics Virtual Environments Ubiquitous Computing Wearable Computing

4. Information Security User information Assurance Digital Special Effects Databases Human Computer Interface Design High Performance Simulation

5. Computing is so much more than programming… … constructing a system that will find you the very best deal on skateboards.... inventing a new method of predicting the effectiveness of a drug on cancer. … designing how people interact with e- voting machines. … working for (even better *starting*) a company like Google – "the tie thing" … and … Computing is:

6. …building really cool machines!!!