Ever wondered how Netflix creates personalized movies suggestions for each user? How Google finds similar websites? How anti-plagiarism software works? This class explains techniques that enable computers to draw conclusions from data and make predictions about what properties subsequently acquired data is likely to have. The class will cover both the mathematical background of machine learning and its practical implementation when tackling real-world problems.

What is a supercomputer? Short answer: A computer that is 10 or 15 years ahead of the best desktop in Best Buy. Long answer? Take this class. We'll explore the history of supercomputers, how they work, the problems they are built solve, how they solve them, and the problems facing their producers today. Topics include Moore's Law, parallelism, distributed computing, GPGPU, and cooling all that stuff down.