Proseminar: History of Computational Science, Vision, and Medical Science

Date and Time: May 18 and 25, 2007
Location: MI 03.13.010
SWS: 2+0 (Informatik Grundstudium WP INF, Informatik Bachelor WP BS-INF, Informatik Master WP MS-INF)
ECTS: 4 Credits

Preliminary Discussion: Friday, Feb 09, 2007 - 13:30 - room MI 03.13.055

The seminar is designed to review and summarize the development of science over the past centuries. The current achievements in computer science and medicine are based decades of evolution and development in various disciplines in science.

Schedule

History of Vision :: May 18, 2007

13:00 - about 17:30 - MI 03.13.010

Topic	Presenter	Supervision	Slides	Handout
Ancient Theories of Vision and Al-Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision	Ika Putri	Marco Feuerstein
Artists in the Renaissance and Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Eye	Stefan Klink	Joerg Traub
Converging History by Schmidhuber	Silvia Bertran Arnabat	Joerg Traub

History of Science :: May 25, 2007

13:00 - about 17:30 - MI 03.13.010

Topic	Presenter	Supervision	Slides	Handout
History of Programming Languages	Sebastian Gosch	Marco Feuerstein
History of Photography	Victoria Bodishevskaya	Christoph Bichlmeier
History of Medical Imaging	Georg Raff	Christoph Bichlmeier
History of Surgical Endoscopy	Wei Fang	Marco Feuerstein

Deliverables

Presentation (about 30-45min) followed by a discussion. Handout (about 10 pages) including all references used. The handout and presentation can be in English or German.

Please send the handout and the presentation to your tutor one week before your talk. Please submit an outline four weeks in advance.

Further Readings

• History of Photography
  • Brian Coe, Birth of Photography, 1976
  • Helmut Gernsheim, The History of Photography (World of Art), 1983
  • Helmut Gernsheim, A Concise History of Photography, 1986

• History of Vision
  • David C. Lindberg, Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, 1976

• History of Ali al-Husayn Abd Allah Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna)
  • Burchard Brentjes, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), 1979
  • Parviz Morewedge, The metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sina), 1973

Images form left to right: Camera Obscura, Stereotactic Frame for Neurosurgery, Neumann's Computer, Drawing by Leonardo DaVinci

Handout

The preferred handout format is a pdf generated from our latex template. Word documents are also acceptable, however we strongly recommend to use this opportunity to get introduced into latex.

For Windows user:

• install miktex - TeX implementation for Microsoft Windows
• install TeXnicCenter - integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows

Getting Started * Use the The Not So Short Introduction to LaTex to get started with LaTex. * Use this template for the handout.