Talk of 20 minutes about what is the work of a Computer Scientist

1. Computer Science
The Art of the 21st century
Daniel Cukier
http://www.agileandart.com
danicuki@gmail.com
Twitter: @danicuki
Next slide: who am I?

2. Nerd
1993

3. Consulting
1996

4. IT in factory
1998

5. Web in Italy
2001

6. It in Factory
2002

7. Consulting
2004

8. 2006
1. Tell more about your job

9. Computer
Science

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32 3 2 4 56 78 3 6 3 54 9
73 5 22 56 11 98 4 3 51 23 3
8 6 23 8 98 86 55 7 61 72 23
84 5 6 7 54 34 66 9 22 31 8
95 7 26 88 43 85 77 5 65 61 34
4 28 55 88 23 12 71 33 22 21 2
2 93 93 2 12 45 61 71 32 3 4

18. picasa,flickr:matrix - youtube, music:functions - orkut,maps:graphs -
google:algorithm,ordering- msn:

20. Big confusion - let’s go back in time:

21. This is INOVATION! Lots of Inovation. Computer science is today what painting and
sculptures were to Renaissance

22. The University

23. First 2 years
First bombastic news

24. - if you thing you studied, forget it
- maths: lots of maths

25. Last 2 years

27. areas
• distributed systems
• computacional vision
(photography, images)
• combinatory Optimization
• musical computation
• databases
• Other: financial, networks,
sysadmin, operational systems
1. What are the most important disciplines? Meths, Calculus, Algebra, Algorithm Analysis
2. Is there any special? (talk about mastering)

28. University will teach you how to think

29. The market

30. 1. Is there jobs? see next slide

31. 1. How long does it take to get the first job? 1 nano-second
2. What is the market reality ? Market in expansion

32. 1. It is necessary to have money to start working or have your business? No
2. Do you think the paying is good? Very good!

33. Alert
 Focus on the left side of the brain can be dangerous. It’s necessary to have
another activity to have balance
 Many hours in front of the computer can be harmful
 Living alone on the computer can cause a distorted idea of reality and life.

34. Música
music

35. Corrida
Sports

36. Escalada

38. Desenho
drawing

39. Escrita
writing

40. Yoga, meditação, respiração, arte marciais afetam o
processamento do cérebro - estudos comprovam:
meditar beneficia mesmo quando não está meditando

48. www.usp.br
www.unicamp.br
www.unesp.br
www.ime.usp.br
www.agileandart.com
More info?

49. Computer Science
The Art of the 21st century
Daniel Cukier
http://www.agileandart.com
danicuki@gmail.com
Twitter: @danicuki
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