Support your fellow students by attending a comps talk this week. I'll be talking about various methods chip designers have come up with to get microprocessors to accomplish more than one task at a time. I'll also go over some of the benefits and negative aspects of parallelism. Basic concepts of microprocessor design will be covered as well, so feel free to come on down regardless of your techie background. There is also an index of all the books reviewed so far, in case you need more ideas.
Problems are open-ended, and solutions are judged on clarity, analysis, and design.
If you think you might be interested, please let Gail Nelson know by the end of the term. This is the time of year when sophomores are trying to decide on a major, and seniors are worrying about job searches and grad school applications. The MAA website is a great place to find career information. If you're wondering what you might do with a math major, where and how to start a job search, whether to go to grad school, or what a particular job might be like, this section of the MAA website is a great place to start. Some of the material on the MAA pages, such as advice on resumes and interviewing, links to online job search aids, and at least some of the career information itself, would also apply to CS majors.