Perspectives of Computer Science

Dear Students,

We had our last lecture of the course yesterday with professor Philipp Slusallek about "Trusted AI". The quiz will be available for you around 12:00 today, and the deadline for this quiz will be extended to Sunday evening (until February 2nd, at 23:59). If you still need some points to pass the course (at most 10), consider quiz 12 as the last opportunity to collect some points.

I hope you enjoyed the course and wish you a good preparation for your exams.

There were some questions about the points achievable in the quizzes.

There are a total of 12 quizzes. Quiz 1 was a practice quiz, however, and not graded. This leaves 11 graded quizzes with 10 points each fr a total of 110 points. 60% of this is 66 points. To pass, you need 66 points or more and be registered for the exam. To fail, you need less than 66 points and be registered for the exam. If you are not registered for the exam, you neither pass nor fail, but are considered as not have taken the course.

For students of LLM IT&Recht, differerent rules apply.

 

Dear students of Perspectives of CS,

because of many problems with LSF/HISPOS registration, unclear communication from our side and after consultation with the exam offices, we have decided to re-open LSF registration for a VERY SHORT PERIOD of time (see below).

As communicated at the beginning of the course, exam registration for the Perspectives course was originally only possible until November 30, 2024. In general, you are always responsible by yourself for registering in LSF in good time. Exceptionally, the registration in the LSF will be activated for you from TODAY until Wednesday, January 15 until 23:00.

Please take advantage of this if you wish to register, as there will be no further exceptions. Register TODAY. Note that you CANNOT unregister if you register now.

If you have problems registering in the LSF, please send an email to the Computer Science Coordination Office (studium@cs.uni-saarland), clearly stating your wish to register for the exam. You must also attach proof (screenshot) of what the problem is with LSF. Please do not send e-mails concerning this to course instructors or organizers, as this cannot count as official registration, and we do not have system access anyway. Exam registration is exclusively handled through exam offices for legal purposes.

If the exam office of your study program (such as LLM IT & Recht) requires an additional proof of registration, please also inform them.

If you are an economics student, exchange student (e.g. Erasmus+) or junior student in the Department of Computer Science, it may not be possible to register in the LSF. If you are in this situation and have not registered by e-mail by 30.11., proceed as above and clearly indicate your study program.

Important:

• All email communication MUST come from your uni-saarland student email address; otherwise it will be ignored.
• Do not write an email if LSF registration is possible for your study program and you were successful.

Please use the following email subject: Registration for Perspectives of Computer Science exam

Text body:
I would like to register for the exam of Perspectives of Computer Science.

Matriculation number:

Full name:

Study program:  (e.g. exchange student or junior student)

(end of email text)
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Do attach a screenshot with an error message if you are writing the email for a technical reason; otherwise, the study program is explanation enough.
Your status & situation will then be checked and you will be added to the verified list of participants in order to receive a certificate at the end. 

The mixture of different systems for different programs and the impossibility of a uniform exam registration for this course is very unfortunate, and we are working on better solutions for next year. We apologize for the inconveniences.

Note that I have deleted all emails sent to me, as I am not legally allowed to handle registrations.

Best regards,
Sven Rahmann

Dear all, 

I apologize for all the confusion. After consulting with the exam offices: the deadline of 30.11. remains firm (although for me, it reads like 31.03.2025 in the system. Again, I do not have the ability to change or modify the exam registration system. I also do not have the student view of the system). So if you were not registered by 30.11., there are no exceptions. The only groups who register otherwise were detailed in my previous post. I apologize if there was no reminder about the deadline.

I have received numerous emails like "I hereby register for the exam. Please tell me the date." This shows, unfortunately, that you have not read the course instructions. I have to ignore such emails.

Again, if you belong to one of the student groups who do not register in LSF HISPOS for the Perspectives of Computer Science exam, and ONLY THEN, please send an email and DO STATE YOUR SUBJECT OF STUDY, so I can forward your results to your exam office. Where I do not have sufficent information, nothing will happen, and you will wonder why you did not pass the course.

Dear all,

if you have not done so last year, please be sure to register for the exam in the LSF (or HISPOS) system (https://www.lsf.uni-saarland.de/). The exam number is 10036. 

Students of the following subjects cannot register in LSF. For them, the registration here in the CMS is sufficient.

- Wirtschaftsinformatik
- Master IT und Recht
- Versicherungs- und Finanzmathematik
- Exchange students / Austauschstudierende (Erasmus+ etc.)
- Juniorstudierende (i.e. high school students)
- Gasthörer (guests) -- they may not get credits in any case

Students of the following subjects may experience difficulties. If they cannot register, they should send an email with their name, MatNr, and confirmation that they do indeed partake in the exam to rahmann@cs.uni-saarland.de. This is not necessary if the LSF registration works, which is the preferred way.

- VSIMint 
- Bachelor-Plus MINT

Please take care of this as soon as possible.

 

Happy new year everyone! The will be no lecture on Monday 06.01. The next lecture is on Monday 13.01.2025.

As I have received a number of emails concerning LSF exam registration; please read the homepage of this course. I cannot help with late registration; I don't even have access to the registration system. This is a matter of your exam office, and the exam office does typically not grant exceptions.

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.

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 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.

 

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.)

 

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.