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Would a course on parallel computing covering these topics be useful for somebody interested in AI, learning, computational geom, and comp vision?

I am interested in learning about topics like AI, machine learning, computer vision, computational geometry, etc. I'm not sure which field I'd like to focus more on yet, but these are topics that are of general interest to me. My school is offering a course tagged as a "parallel and multicore computing" course, and I spoke t...

What back end database /technologies are being used by The New York Times engine?

Does anyone know what technologies/ content management systems newspaper companies like the New York Times or the LA times use to run their websites? I need to re-design my Universities website, and I want to make sure I'm using/researching the best technology possible. ...

Getting the jack-of-all-trades degree

Not literally of course. I'm an upcoming senior in high school and I've spent my years since 8th grade designing & developing websites, administrating forums, setting up LAMP stacks, working on a few open source projects, and the daily debugging. I feel like I've touched on many different aspects of technological industry—inclined toward...

Benefits of B. Apsc in Software Engineering vs. B. Sc in Computer Science

After reading this question, it made me wonder about the benefits of pursuing a degree in Software Engineering as opposed to a degree in Computer Science (both being 4-5 year programs). From what it sounds like, Software Engineering is a "shinier" degree because you have to go through the additional difficulty of learning hardware, circ...

Assembly language - More than one type?

I start university in a few weeks (software engineering degree) and know that one of the modules I'll be studying in the first year is 'fundamentals of architecture' or something similar; basically it's learning to program in 'assembly'. I'm wanting to do some background learning so I'm prepared for it (I've done the same on some other ...

What is Information Technology? Can i use it as my undergrad to go into law?

hi everyone, I want to go into law but I need an undergrad before I can do so. I live in Ontario, Canada. I want to study both web development and design. Luckily, I came across this program: http://www.bitdegree.ca/index.php?Section=Course&Item=IMD&Page=Default# But i don't think its an actual information technology degree. ...

Are programming skills and computer knowledge taught at university sufficient for industry?

I am student currently attending my fourth year at a Swedish university and will, if all goes well, take my Master's degree in Computer Science in winter of 2011. It is a respectible university, at least here, and am overall satisfied with my choice - both of university and major. While I've learned much in the courses I've attended, I ...

how to narrow Google query to educational institution only(but not just to American ones)

I often search educational institutions websites with the following Google query my_query site:.edu or my_query site:edu.pl or my_query site:edu.au but it only crawls through American, Polish and Australian ones respectively. In most countries top level domain for universities is the country domain and edu is only a sub-domai...

What was the most useful CS thing you learned at University?

Probably most of the knowledge you use day to day in your job wasn't learned in a class. But, looking back, you must also have learned some things that are actually really valuable to you. What was the most useful CS related thing you learned as part of your formal education? I left University (UBC) because I was taking one whole semest...

Which university is offering video courses in programming languages?

Frankly speaking. I'm looking for a specific video course webpage which I visited few months ago. It was posted as an answer to some question. I know this kind of questions are frowned upon and closed. But I'm helpless. I've been searching for it for more than a month and this is my last approach. I'm writing a report on education metho...