Stanford University Summer Session

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Stanford UniversitySummer Session

• Daehwan Kim,
• AIPR Lab, KAIST
• August 31

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Outline

• Overview of Stanford University
• Courses
• View of the classroom
• Courses that I took
• Atmosphere
• Dormitory life
• Good impression of America
• Conclusion

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Stanford University

• Founded in 1891 by Leland Stanford
• One of the biggest of the U.S.
• Wide campus, 8180 acres (10,013,874?)

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Stanford University

• Research
• Popular in electronic engineering, computer
  science, earth science and business
  administration
• 17 Nobel laureates, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners and
  23 MacArthur Fellows
• Students
• 6,500 undergraduates, 7,700 graduates
• 5 are international students

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Stanford University

• Provides its own beauty
• Many trees, antique buildings
• Has many works of Rodin
• 2nd biggest number of Rodin works

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Classroom

• Several devices
• Camera
• Takes a view of lecturer, students, board, or
  paper on the table
• Television
• Screen
• One helper to control these devices

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Programming Methodology

• Time M,T,W,Th 1100 1200 A.M.
• Instructor Brandon Burr, Osvaldo Jimenez
• 5 section leaders
• 1 course helper

Brandon
Osvaldo
Rosalind Davis
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Programming Methodology

• The course covered
• Basic programming with java
• Designing programs
• Course materials were good
• Handout and java libraries
• Java IDE for the Stanford students
• Good homework
• Start files for each homework and some tutorials
• A lot of homework

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Programming Methodology

• 1-hour section
• Discussion class
• Code trace, program design
• 20-minute interactive grading
• If not showing, students get 0 point
• Grading point
• Style, functionality

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Introduction to A.I.

• Time T, Th 9001100 A.M.
• Instructor Rahul Biswas
• 1 T.A.
• 1 course helper

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Introduction to A.I.

• The course covered
• Uninformed search and its strategies
• Informed search and exploration
• Adversarial search
• Uncertainty
• Learning from observation
• Baysian network
• HMM
• Robotics

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Introduction to A.I.

• A lot of homework
• exercises
• programming
• Hard to understand the instructor
• Unfamiliar accent and intonation
• Hard to do the homework in English

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Atmosphere of classes

• Encouraging students to ask
• Candy, chocolate, etc.
• Considering international students
• Repeating the question of the students or making
  it easy to understand
• Trusting students
• Honor code
• No exam-supervisor
• Take-home exam

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Dormitory

• Escondido Village
• Housing for graduate students
• 2-bedroom apartment
• Living room, kitchen, oven, toilet, bathtub

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Dormitory Life

• Roommate Haige Lu
• From China
• Ph. D. course in chemistry
• Can speak English fluently

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Good Impression of America

• Clear Construction
• Little dust, little noise
• Consideration of the handicapped people
• Road for wheel chair
• Space for handicapped people in bus, restroom,
  etc.
• Desk for left-handed

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Good Impression of America

• People are very kind
• Always with smile
• Individualism
• Nobody cares
• Makes me feel free
• People obey the rules

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Conclusion

• Stanford has well-designed courses
• About English
• Speaking or writing in English is so difficult
• I need much experience to understand various
  pronunciation
• America has good system considering handicapped
  people
• I became more broad-minded