Computer Science is Changing Everything

No matter what field you want to go into, Computer Science is changing that industry.
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- Elena Silenok / Clothia.com
- Drew Houston / Dropbox
- Lee Redden / Blue River Technology
- Jess Lee / Polyvore
- Vida Ayong / Derisi Lab at UCSF
- Brett Witt / OPower
- Becky Farmer / Iberdrola Renewables
- Abe Alvarez / Axon Technology
- Miral Kotb / iLuminate
- Trina Roy / Pixar / Renderman
- May-Li Khoe / Inventor
- Bronwen Grimes / Valve
- Chris Bosh / NBA All-Star
- Mark Zuckerburg / Facebook

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Computer Science is Changing Everything

I think the 19th century was about the Industrial

Revolution, about electricity, about disrupting
the agricultural society and making it more

advanced. The 20th century was about physics
and engineering to do more things easier in

our everyday life from refrigerators to washing
machines. And the 21st century is definitely

the digital age. It's the Internet.

Even if you want to become a race car driver or play

baseball or build a house, all of these things
have been turned upside down by software.

[Title: Agriculture]

The lettucebot is a robot that can
sense its environment. Every single

hour this lettucebot is seeing 1.5 million
plants, and it's taking individual action

on those plants. We enable lettuce growers
to have higher yields in their field by helping

make it cheaper, by helping produce food in
a more sustainable way, and that wasn't previously

possible without computer science and technology.

[Title: Fashion] I have a really fun job where we built Polyvore,

which combines all of my favorite things like programming, as well

as fashion, art, design, and shopping! Half
the products you use these days are software

products that you play with on your phone
and so if you want to build something cool

you need to know programming. There's so many
things you can do with computer science so

if you just work backwards from the cool thing
you want to build and you figure out what

that is, a lot of times computer programming
is part of that. So you should learn the skill.

[Title: Medicine] It's really exciting right
now, the technology that we're developing

right now is going to be used by your doctor
in the next decade. When you come into the

office and you're sick, the doctor is going
to ask you to spit in this cup. I will put

it into this magic machine which is a sequencer
and in an hour I can tell you what you have

or what's wrong with you. So if we're looking
for a new virus, for example, we'll download

a database of all the viruses that are known.
We'll search for our sequence of interest

against a whole database of all viruses. So
you still need somebody to analyze the data;

the computer is not smart enough yet.
[Title: Energy] Our software helps people save energy

and thereby reduce their carbon emissions.
To date, we've saved over 8 terawatt hours,

which is the equivalent of about 1.1 million
cars on the road. When you're forecasting

the wind there are so many different parameters
that go into it, it would be impossible for

a human to sit down and do all those calculations.
We need a computer model in order to forecast

it. [Title: Public Safety] Most people don't
think about technology and public safety as

going together, but our software is actually
changing the way that law enforcement is capturing,

transferring, and managing their digital evidence
on a daily basis. It turns out that when officers

are wearing our cameras they see a drastic
reduction in use of force as well as a drastic

reduction in the amount of complaints being
leveraged against their agency-- ultimately

resulting in safer communities. [Title: Art
and Entertainment] The merging of art and technology

is getting more and more significant now.
Because computers and software are such an

integral part of our lives day to day, people
are realizing that it can be quite creative

to take this medium of computers and create
incredible works of art. In Finding Nemo,

when Crush and Squirt and all their friends
are flying through the East Australian Current,

you're seeing images of water flowing by,
you're seeing the colors on the back of the

turtle, you're seeing the sides of the fish,
all of those things are generated through

math and computer programs that we write that
we then give to the artist and they take that

to create that final image and to tweak it
and make it look beautiful and look fun. The

crux of it is really about invention. It's
about looking at the world and being dissatisfied

with things and questioning everything. I
always felt like if I didn't learn how to

program it would be like not learning how
to read. The future would just be closed to

me. If you're in the coding profession, there's
so many things that you can do and you can

pretty much pick and choose the course you
want to be in. Think that you can start something

in your college dorm room and you can have
a set of people who haven't built a big company

before come together and build something that
a billion people use as part of their daily

lives is just crazy to think about. It's really
humbling and amazing. Really it's about the

chance to reinvent things and see it out
there in the world and see people using it

and having fun or having a better life because
of something that wasn't there before that

you put in the world.

Learn computer science,
it's changing everything.