Splash Biography

ROBERT LIU, Aspiring code wizard

Major: Computer Science

College/Employer: Princeton

Year of Graduation: 2020

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm a Princeton junior studying computer science, and have been coding in various ways for about five years.

Past Classes

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M602: Introduction to Cloud Computing in Splash Spring 2019 (Apr. 27, 2019)

How do companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon turn code into extremely profitable websites? Using many computers turned into "clouds", they can deliver their content around the world. Many other companies rent computers from these clouds, powering web sites everywhere. I'll talk about how the modern Internet really works, and why clouds came to be.

M604: Introduction to Operating Systems in Splash Spring 2019 (Apr. 27, 2019)

Windows vs. Mac. Android vs. iOS. Operating systems are our windows into the computing world, uniting parts of a computer into a usable interface. I'll talk about key concepts in all operating systems, using a coffee shop as a metaphor, and cover some implementations.