What is Computing?

College of Computing

Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center

www.cc.gatech.edu www.gvu.gatech.edu

What most of you think of when you hear "computing"……

Graphics

Bioinformatics

Computer Vision

Robotics

VirtualEnvironments

Ubiquitous Computing

Wearable Computing

Information SecurityUser informationAssurance

Digital Special Effects

Databases

Human ComputerInterface Design

High Performance Simulation

Computing is so much more than programming…

… constructing a system that will find you the very best deal on skateboards.

... inventing a new method of predicting the effectiveness of a drug on cancer.

… designing how people interact with e-voting machines.

… working for (even better *starting*) a company like Google – "the tie thing"

… and …

Computing is:

…building really cool machines!!!