Visualizing Computer Systems

Pat Hanrahan, Marc Levoy, Mendel Rosenblum

Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory

Stanford University

Homepage of group: http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/

Homepage of course: http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348c-96-fall/

• Title of course: Visualizing Computer Systems

• Aimed at what category of students: Students of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

• Objectives of the course:
• This new course will explore the use of visualization to design and understand computers and computer systems. The premise is that computer systems are becoming more and more complex and that the tools used to design and monitor them need to be able to deal with the emerging complexity. Visualization is widely used in other scientific and engineering disciplines to help people understand the systems they study, but is relatively underutilized in computer science itself. The key intellectual challenge is to develop the right "visual metaphors" for conveying information about the system in the most effective way, and to implement systems for extracting and presenting the information to the user.

• List topics of course:
• Introduction to visualization
• The design of visualizations
• Scientific visualization techniques
• Information visualization techniques
• Computer systems: data collection
• Visual metaphors for computer systems
• Software visualization discussion

 

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