ESP Biography



JESSICA POINTING, MIT & Harvard Student, Physics & Computer Science




Major: Computer Science, Physics

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2018

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Jessica Pointing was an undergraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a senior at Harvard pursuing a double major in Physics and Computer Science. Jessica does quantum computing research at MIT.

She has taught Physics and Economics courses, including a "Special Relativity" course, and "Intro to Economics" course to more than 150 middle and high school students over several weeks in the spring semester.



Past Classes

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P12251: Quantum Computing in Spark 2018 (Mar. 17 - 18, 2018)
What is quantum computing? Why are Google, Microsoft, MIT, Harvard and other companies and institutions working on this? How does quantum computing combine quantum mechanics with computation? Come learn the basics of quantum mechanics and computation in order to learn about quantum computing. This could potentially be the next revolution of computers. Be a part of it!


S11643: Quantum Computing in Splash 2017 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2017)
What is quantum computing? Why are Google, Microsoft, MIT, Harvard and other companies and institutions working on this? How does quantum computing combine quantum mechanics with computation? Come learn the basics of quantum mechanics and computation in order to learn about quantum computing. This could potentially be the next revolution of computers. Be a part of it!


C11646: Machine Learning in Splash 2017 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2017)
Learn the basics of machine learning! After this course, you should be able to understand what machine learning is, and how to use it in your own projects!


C9635: Why Computer Science? in Splash 2015 (Nov. 21 - 22, 2015)
Do you know anything about Computer Science? If not, join this class! We will go over what computer science is, what you can use it for and we might even do some programming.


P9240: Special Relativity in Spark 2015 (Mar. 14 - 15, 2015)
Ever wondered what all this talk about special relativity is? Like in the movie Interstellar? Come and learn the basic concepts of special relativity, and prepare to have your intuition challenged.