Introduction to the Specialization |1st | week 1 |.
Hi, I'm Steve Oney, I'm the Assistant Professor here in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. So, I did some of the introductory programming classes in the School of Information, and I'm really excited to have you join us because I really think programming is going to increasingly be a fundamentally important literacy, and a way of dealing with the increasing amounts of data that we get and deal with in our everyday lives. In my private life, I play soccer. Like Professor Resnick, I'm an avid biker as well, and you'll be seeing me in courses one, two, and four. Most of my research deals with making programming tools more usable. In other words, making programming tools that are designed around the ways that people think, in the ways that we actually program as well. Hi. I'm Paul Resnick, I'm a Professor and Associate Dean for research at the University of Michigan School of Information. As Associate Dean, I don't get to teach that much, but I really enjoy teaching the material that I'll be teaching you in this specialization. I'm glad to have a chance to share it with you. You'll see me in courses one and two, almost all of course three and a little bit in course four. I'm a fan of nerdy pun humor, also known as dad jokes, and so I'll be sharing a few of those with you at the ends of some of the lessons. In my research, I'm probably best known for, what's now known as Recommender Systems.