Tech Startup for Gifted Students

Chee Wei Tan (cheewtan@cityu.edu.hk)Teaching Website:

https://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/∼cheewtan/teaching.html

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Qualcomm: The Power of Intellectuals 1

1World’s first CDMA Network, IS-95, created by former MIT Professors who leftAcademia to start up Qualcomm on July 1st 1985. Irwins Jacob and Andrew Viterbi,inventor of the famous Viterbi Algorithm, next to the Famous Wall of Patents

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Fast TCP: The Power of Internet

FAST TCP commercialized in 2006, increased bandwidth utilizationefficiency in real networks from 20% to 90%, sold to Akamai in 2012

Linux TCP Linux TCP FAST

Average

utilization

19%

27%

92%

txq=100 txq=10000

95%

16%

48%

Linux TCP Linux TCP FAST

2G

1G

txq=10000txq=100

Steven H. Low and NetLab Group, FAST TCP: motivation, architecture,

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Google: The Power of Software

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Brin andPage, 1998

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

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SpaceX: The Power of Open Source Software2

2World’s first vertical-landing rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon9, runs on CVXGEN.Autonomous Precision Landing of Space Rockets, L, Blackmore, NAE 2016

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Amazon: The Power of Cloud and Space

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in his garage on July 5, 1994 when heleft his job at D. E. Shaw, after writing its business plan on a

cross-country drive from New York City to Seattle.

Jeff Bezos is fixated in space exploration since his high-school and college days!

His quote echoed a problem-solving strategy in artificial intelligence, a CS subfield.

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Paypal Mafia: The Power of Intellectuals and Software3

3The ”PayPal Mafia” is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who havesince founded other technology companies such as Tesla, LinkedIn, PalantirTechnologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Most of the members attendedStanford University or UIUC at some point in their studies.

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Zero-to-One: The Power of Contrarian Thinking 4

4Book by Peter Thiel, ”don” of the PayPal Mafia, that grew out of his Stanfordcourse CS183, a computer science class at Stanford University in Spring 2012

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Nemobot

Our friendly AI Chatbot:https://www.facebook.com/Nemo-Bot-454163798317367

for polls and quizzes that are multiple-choice questions

Nemobot teaches you software knowledge, AI ideas and many more

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Sign Up HKAGE Channel

Install Messenger from App StoreSearch Nemo Bot and open the first oneSend subscribe to Nemo Bot and click HKAGE button

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Nemo Bot webpage

The webpage link is: https://nemobotweb.appspot.com/mcq

You can use it to create your own multiple choice questions

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Carbon

The webpage link is: https://carbon.now.sh/

Create and share beautiful images of your source code

Click export to save your image

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Imgur

The webpage link is: https://imgur.com/

Click new post to upload the png image

Use copy link to copy it into Nemo Bot webpage and add .png at theend of the copied URL

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The Single Best Interview Question You Can Ask

“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”

Peter Thiel, JD at Stanford Law School, had a fellowship (ThielFellowship of a sum $100,000) for college students to dropout.

“The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is builtaround a secret that’s hidden from the outside.”

“If your goal is to never make a mistake in your life, you shouldn’tlook for secrets. The prospect of being lonely but right—dedicatingyour life to something that no one else believes in—is already hard.The prospect of being lonely and wrong can be unbearable.”

“The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hiddenpaths.”

“All Rhodes scholars had a great future in their past.”

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Go Big or Go Home 5

5Chen Show Mao, Rhodes Scholar, JD at Stanford Law School, sealed the world’slargest IPO in Hongkong in 2010 and he went home serving his adopted country in 2011.

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Google Colab

https://tinyurl.com/hkage-colab-1

https://tinyurl.com/hkage-colab-2

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Contact Information

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June Homework:

Create a few Multiple-Choice-Question (MCQ) based on Thiel’sprovocative interview question at the webpage:https://nemobotweb.appspot.com/mcq

Nemobot quiz (type fetch or fetch message in the Nemobot messagebox to see if there’s a quiz)

Get familiar with Python programming on Colab to print simple text

Solve the Eight Queens Problem on Slide 8 of the AI Lecture Slide

Write a one-page essay about a problem that you think AI can play arole to solve

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