Cse1001 gave me a chance to learn about the amazing things you can make computers do along with that I learnt about the various programs that are being offered in the computer related field. The three lectures delivered during this year that really impressed me were computer graphics by Petro Faloutsos, computer vision and robotics by John Tsotsos and computer security by Hamzeh Roumani. The reason for choosing these three topics is because computer graphics has always been one of my main interests and this lecture gave me a chance to know more about simulation and animation. John Tsotsos talked about his research related to computer vision and robotics because of which I developed an interest in robots and last but not a lecture about computer security in which I learnt new stuff about cryptography.

Animating virtual humans is a crucial element of interactive applications according to professor Petro Faloutsos. These applications include medicine, critical situation simulation and interactive applications. He also gave us a little information about his ongoing project on human simulation and modeling. He told us that if we want to simulate a virtual human with high fidelity, we would have to have a layered system which consists of motor control, coordinated level behaviors and expressive facial animations and also mentioned about designing hardware and software accelerators for the physics based simulation.

The very talented Professor John told us that his research was based on computer vision and robotics. He discussed how his research is helping in different fields like biomedical, tracking, security, object recognition, visual attention, autonomous wheelchair and motion perception. He mentioned a few things that we will be able to see as a result of his wheelchair research for example, robotics wheelchairs will be capable of operating indoors and outdoor