AT THE FRONTIERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE on TV (Starting 3.2.98 ) This is to announce a series of television programs on computer science, produced by the Educational Television, as part of the general "Ascola" framework. The programs will be aired starting in early February, as part of the activities of the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. The series was constructed by Prof. David Harel of the Weizmann Institute of Science. It consists of 14 programs, each around 30 minutes long. In each program, one or two people are hosted for a leisurely discussion on a certain topic. The participants include some of the best computer scientists in Israel, such as Turing Awardees Michael Rabin and Amir Pnueli. The programs will be broadcast on Tuesdays, one program per week for 14 weeks, starting on February 3, 1998. The morning broadcast will be on Channel 1 at 8:00am, and a re-run will be aired on the same day on Channel 23 at 7:00pm. The material is discussed on a general popular level, and the programs are therefore suitable for people interested in computing or anyone who is curious about science and technology, including scientists and engineers, computer professionals, computer users, and high-school teachers and pupils. The list of programs and participants is attached below. AT THE FRONTIERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ==================================== Host: Prof. David Harel 1. Computer Science here and abroad: Some history Prof. Michael Rabin and Prof. Amir Pnueli 2. Number theory Prof. Ehud de-Shalit 3. Computability and computational efficiency Prof. Avi Wigderson 4. The great mystery: Is P=NP? Prof. Avi Wigderson 5. Randomized computation Prof. Michael Rabin 6. Cryptography Prof. Shafi Goldwasser 7. Programming languages and software engineering Prof. Amiram Yehudai 8. Specification and verification of programs Prof. Amir Pnueli 9. The software industry in Israel: A personal story Mr. Gil Shveid 10. Computer science in the day-to-day Prof. Michael Rodeh 11. Computer science and nature Prof. Nati Linial 12. Computer science and natural language Prof. Yaakov Choueka 13. Computerized vision and robotics Prof. Shimon Ullman and Prof. Tamar Flash 14. Cognition and brain research Prof. Idan Segev and Prof. Shimon Ullman