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The prof noted that it's almost all EE folks, with a few others, but didn't mention Comp Sci. Can anyone comment on why there were seemingly no Comp Sci people
by jomamaxx 10y ago
The prof noted that it's almost all EE folks, with a few others, but didn't mention Comp Sci. Can anyone comment on why there were seemingly no Comp Sci people in this class? Wouldn't this be 'core' to Comp Sci?
- detaro 10y agoNot in this detail, no. And I bet there many are CS curricula where fourier transforms aren't in the core courses (or even not explicitly present at all). It's only relevant for some application domains (and has no "pure" CS use case I can think of), so a basic idea what it does, as a single lecture in a maths course or so, is probably enough in many cases. If you go in an field that uses it, you hopefully learn it in more detail there (or go googling for resources like this...).
- llamaz 10y agoMaybe at Carneigie Mellon, or the better universities. In a typical uni comp sci is a programming monkey degree (at least in Australia...)
- ajkjk 10y agoI don't see Fourier Transforms as core to CS at all. The FFT algorithm is an important algorithm, and I've seen it mentioned as one of many subjects in an upper-level algorithms class, but that's it.
- GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago>The prof noted that it's almost all EE folks, with a few others, but didn't mention Comp Sci. Can anyone comment on why there were seemingly no Comp Sci people in this class? Wouldn't this be 'core' to Comp Sci? Why would it? Core CS deals primarily with discrete mathematics. Outside of a DSP or image processing course, there's little reason for a CS student to encounter the Fourier or other transforms.
- hood_syntax 10y agoI took a class on Scientific Computing (required) which went over a lot of core algorithms in various fields, including FFT. I wouldn't be surprised if a good portion of programs had something similar.