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Quiz 06 extended till tonight

Written on 02.12.24 by Sven Rahmann

There were some technical problems with the CMS system on the weekend. Therefore, quiz 06 has been extended till tonight 23:55. Results will be computed tomorrow.

Quiz 07 will start today after the lecture at 16:00 regularly and be available till Friday evening.

Course Materials; Quiz

Written on 28.11.24 by Sven Rahmann

Dear all, due to the delay in providing the lecture materials for this week, the quiz is extended until the end of the weekend (Sunday, 23:55). A video and slides are now available.

Quiz 03 Question 08

Written on 07.11.24 by Sven Rahmann

We apologize for a mistake in Quiz 08, Question 08, as it makes no sense.

The correct question is:

Q8: Is P( T | do(V) ) = P(T) correct or incorrect?

The quiz has been edited accordingly, but if you have already opened it, you might always see the old version.

Lecture 3 (Jilles Vreeken) online

Written on 05.11.24 by Sven Rahmann

Lecture 3 and the slides are available in the Materials section now. Please remember to do the quiz until Friday.

The results for the quiz of last week are visible on your personal status page. The correct answers can be downloaded in the Materials section.

An individual quiz is neither passed… Read more

Lecture 3 and the slides are available in the Materials section now. Please remember to do the quiz until Friday.

The results for the quiz of last week are visible on your personal status page. The correct answers can be downloaded in the Materials section.

An individual quiz is neither passed nor not passed. At the end, you need to have collected enough points over all quizzes.

Assuming 11 quizzes for 10 points each, you need to collect 60% of 110 points, that is 66 points, over the semester. (For LL.M. students, that is 30% or 33 points.)

In case of more or fewer quizzes, adjust accordingly.

Lecture 2 (Martina Maggio) online

Written on 28.10.24 by Sven Rahmann

The two-part video and the PDF slides of today's lecture are online. Unfortunately, the seond part has no sound. We apologize for this problem. The quiz is now open till Friday evening. Please also refer to the PDF slides to solve it.

One point for clarification: If you have a personal specific… Read more

One point for clarification: If you have a personal specific question, please do not use the anonymous feedback feature. We cannot get back to you in this way; the system completely hides your identity. So,

use anonymous feedback for feedback that you want to or must give anonymously,
use the forum to ask questions of general interest (revealing who you are),
use direct email or personal messages in the forum to ask questions that concern you personally or that reveal information that should not become public.

Practice Quiz Results

Written on 26.10.24 by Sven Rahmann

The results from the practice quiz are available on your personal status page. In addition, the correct answers have been uploaded to the Materials.

Some remarks:

- About 100 registered participants did take the practice quiz. This is not good. If there are any problems next week, they will cost… Read more

The results from the practice quiz are available on your personal status page. In addition, the correct answers have been uploaded to the Materials.

Some remarks:

- About 100 registered participants did take the practice quiz. This is not good. If there are any problems next week, they will cost you real points.

- Scores are generally very low. Most did not achieve 6 points or more. This is concerning.

- No one complained about the non-sensical answers for question #7. They were a copy of the answers for question #6 and did not make sense. (For the practice quiz, you got a point if you never touched one of the anwers and had an empty answer.) For a real quiz, if this happens, please complain via the feedback feature.

- Advice to protect you against technical problems: Do the quiz. Take a screenshot. Close the quiz. Wait. Re-open the quiz and check that your answers are still there. Close. (Someties, if you do not have a stable internet connections, your answers may not register immediately in the system.)

Practice Quiz online

Written on 22.10.24 by Sven Rahmann

The practice quiz has been online since 22:00 on Monday. It seems to work fine, with 56 participants having it filled out already. Please remember to do it until Friday to receive feedback and help test the system. The first real quiz (i.e. counting for points) will start on Monday.

First lecture online

Written on 21.10.24 by Sven Rahmann

The video of the first lecture is now online. Please note that we do not do live streaming, so there is no live zoom link.
You can either come to the lecture in person, or watch it later online.

The quiz will go online later tonight and be available till Friday, 23:55, on you Personal Status… Read more

The video of the first lecture is now online. Please note that we do not do live streaming, so there is no live zoom link.
You can either come to the lecture in person, or watch it later online.

The quiz will go online later tonight and be available till Friday, 23:55, on you Personal Status page. As explained, it is a practice quiz and will not count.

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Perspectives of Computer Science

Lectures: The lecture is a first orientation towards different research areas in Computer Science and related fields, covered by local world-class experts. Different PIs of Saarland Informatics Campus and CISPA present their various research topics (in English).

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Sven Rahmann, Nima Amini

Time: Every Monday, starting 21.10.2024, at 14:15 - 15:45

Location: Lecture hall 1 in E2.5 (math lecture hall building)
Lectures will also be recorded (at least some of them) and available for viewing until (at leat) the end of the week.

Prerequisites: none; the lecture is for beginning students in computer science.

Passing the course:

This is a mandatory but ungraded course for 2 ECTS credits.
After every lecture, there will be an online quiz that must be taken by each student. A certain number of correct answers (60%) must be given in the quizzes to pass the course. (Students whose study plan counts this course with only 1 ECTS credit need to get half of that, i.e. 30%).
The quizzes are in here in the CMS (called "online tests").
Quizzes consist of approximately 10 multiple-choice questions.
Quizzes are open till Friday after the lecture, 23:59. Results will be available after the quiz closes.
You can revisit and edit your answers until the deadline.

Important registration information:

You must register for this course on this website (CMS) in order to access the recorded lectures and other material.
You must register for the exam of this course separately in HIS/POS (LSF) until 30.11.2024; otherwise you cannot get credit. No exceptions; no late registrations. If you forget the HIS/POS registration, you cannot get credit even if you get 60% of all quiz points!
(Note: LL.M. students and some other groups, like junior students, cannot register in LSF, HIS/POS. Only in these cases it is sufficient to be registered here (in the CMS). You will get a written confirmation if you pass the course to hand over to your examination office, or your exam office will be informed directly).

Questions?

Please read the FAQ below first, then use the "Forum".
To connect with each other, we may also set up a discord server for everyone. However, it will not be monitored by the organization team.

Schedule

Date	Presenter: Topic
21.10.2024	Sven Rahmann: Introduction, Organziation, short talk on Bioinformatics (with a practice quiz)
28.10.2024	Martina Maggio: Verification of Control Systems
04.11.2024	Jilles Vreeken: The Lecture of Why
11.11.2024	Benjamin Kaminski: Ancient and Modern (Quantitative) Verification
18.11.2024	Jürgen Steimle: Human-Computer Integration
25.11.2024	Andrea Volkamer: Computer-Aided Drug Design
02.12.2024	Verena Wolf: Does Mechanistic Modeling Become Obsolete in the Era of Deep Learning?
09.12.2024	Kerstin Reese: Teaching Computer Science to Young People
16.12.2024	Derek Dreyer: Safe Systems Programming in Rust
(holidays)	---
06.01.2025
13.01.2025	Jan Reineke: Synthesizing Leakage Contracts
20.01.2025	Thorsten Herfet: On the 5G Campus Network
27.01.2025	Philipp Slusallek: Trusted AI
03.02.2025	--- (spare slot in case something has to move)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How do I register in LSF / HISPOS ?
Registration has to be completed till 30.11.2024 !
Please choose exam number 10036 in "Prüfungsstrukturbaum" -> "Informatik" -> "Bachelor" -> "Lecture Series on Topics in Computer Science". (This does not apply to LL.M students, who cannot register in HISPOS/LSF. They will receive a written confirmation letter at the end of the course.)
I forgot to finish a quiz in time. Can I do a late submission?
No; you'll get 0 points for this quiz. Don´t worry, you only need 60%, so it's enough to make sure you do well in the following weeks.
I started the quiz, then time ran out, and I never submitted. What now?
The questions that you have answered within the time frame will be graded; the remainder will be scored with zero.

Earlier versions of "Perspektiven der Informatik"

WS 2023/24 (CMS)
WS 2022/23 (CMS)
WS 2021/22
WS 2019/20
WS 2011/12