Name: CS50 2016 - Week 11 at Yale - The End
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This is CS50, and this is Yale University.

Really, this is the last lecture of the course.

And I hope to interpret most of you when I say, wow, already?

And indeed, just think where we started off two, three months ago.

What we have achieved is simply unbelievable.

When time flies by, it means that we have been engaged a lot.

This is precisely the type of experience that we want to give as part of CS50.

So now today's is the last lecture, but the course

does not end here, as David will remind all of us in a bit.

In particular, the hackathon is coming up.

It's a great opportunity to meet friends in Cambridge, I thought,

but while potentially working on your final project.

And then while you're here in New Haven, the final

CS50 [? for ?] a great occasion to showcase

what you have achieved in these two, three months, and to present

this type of output not just to a friend of yours,

but really to the entire Yale community and beyond.

Indeed, today does not end year, but in a way,

we should start thinking about life beyond CS50.

And well, let me tell you, it does exist.

And so we decided to take the opportunity of the last lecture

to invite a few friends-- faculty from Yale College--

to present some of the great resources that Yale can offer to those of you who

want to dive more deeply into the realm and the wonder of CS

So I'm going to introduce to you a few friends, faculty.

I would like to welcome all of them with a big round of applause.

And I have the pleasure to introduce Holly Rushmeier from the computer

HOLLY RUSHMEIER: So, yes, I'm Professor Rushmeier.

Right now I'm teaching CPSC 201, Introduction

to Computer Science-- a course that I really love,

because it has the core ideas of computer science in it.

But another area that I really love, and what I do my research in,

And that's what I'll spend my few minutes here on.

And basically, what is computer graphics?

It's using computers to make and use images for exploration, communication,

So exploration-- how do we understand things?

One of the things that we can do is read and write about things

We also can explore things by drawing, gathering pictures, and manipulating

We use graphics a lot for communicating ideas.

Creating a feature film-- that's communicating ideas.

Advertisements, documentaries-- all these things are using images.

And we have a part to play in creating those images.

And then some of it is just purely creative expression.

These images here are from some of our research work

here at Yale, including things like-- we're

interested in designing what makes things look like what they look like.

And that's a combination of their small-scale geometry-- whether they've

got little rings or bumps, or how they're woven--

We're also interested in abstract visualizations to make things clearer.

So these strange little spheres floating and inside the matrix

are an illustration of a kind of calculation.

And we're interested in systems that help people.

So these images are showing a sculpture of the Madonna

This is part of a system that we've created for art conservators

to study works of art using data from different imaging modalities.

And then on the bottom is another visualization.

It's visualizing the results of a perceptual experiment

that we did about how things look when they move.

So just a little bit of the span of things

A little bit about-- another way of looking at graphics

is that we observe problems in the real world.

And we're going to produce something in the real world.

But what we do in computer graphics is we get those physical things

we observe into the computer, and then we

create the data, data structures, algorithms, to work with those objects,

to create the solutions that then allows us

So in the physical world, we may be simply observing

shapes and forms and colors and lights and how people perceive things.

Or we may be using instruments to measure shapes and colors.

We may be designing new instruments or conceiving

of new ways of putting existing instruments together.

And we may just be observing how people perceive things,

or we may be doing psycho-physical experiments to figure out

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