with support of Wolfram Research
This was a free program for the best students to explore the most recent advances in programming, Artificial Intelligence and science. The course has taken place in Khemarak University, September 20–October 27, 2016 in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
Imagination is more important than knowledge — Albert Einstein
Quick Prototyping school organized with support of Wolfram Research is a free event for students that has taken place in Phnom Penh in Khemarak University, from September 20 to October 27, 2016.
The goal of the school was to introduce the students to the bleeding-edge programming, Artificial Intelligence and Science.
You can check our Facebook page to see some photographs and information of how it was going. Also take a look at student projects below on this page.
Throughout the school many students have finished their personal projects. Here are some examples of the students talking about them:
Menghour (a pharmacy student who has never programmed before in his life) has built a Facebook bot that helps Cambodian people who don't have an access to the healthcare system.
Chan Roath was working on the analysis of the music, like counting how many musical notes of each kind are used.
Ratha (also never programmed before) has built a program to produce a video from the musical notes of any song.
Sam Ath has developed a Facebook bot that would ask a question per day every subscriber, summarize their results with daily statistics, and let them compete with friends.
During the course Sith has started working on an advanced AI for video games that would incorporate some recent ideas from the scientists working on the Artificial Intelligence.
The subjects taught at the Summer school included:
In addition, during the school many students have finished their own personal project, supervised by our instructors. The projects had topics that were individually chosen by each student. During the last few days there was a few project showcasess where students have told about their results with the projects.
I think, this course will maybe change some part of my life — Menghour, one of the students
There are many good point of this course, and very love it, but very sad for me to drop out the course because of health condition :( hope to see you next year! — Dora, one of the students
Vladimir is an excellent physic lecturer because he awaked student’s imagination and curiosity. When he talked about universe – gravity – relativity – the basic rules of life – Wolfram language, I wished our secondary’s teachers showed and asked me the things like he did– may be some of kids at my generation, in a disadvantaged area could dream and go far further. It was sometimes ashamed to admit that – people nowadays care too much on social science and forget Natural Science though natural science is exactly the beginning of existence. If you looking for a simple computer language to compute, write and play music by coding, make web apps to learn new language, draw charts to make numbers more visual, interactive, easy and fun, then Wolfram could be one of best options. Different from the other computer languages, Wolfram language is open for everyone – it doesn’t matter how old you are or how much knowledge you have, which background you are profesional at, you still can learn and work well with it. Everything you have to do is read – think logically – practice, practice and practice. So the question is How long time you need to accquire a new computer language like Wolfram? Of couse - there is no correct answers. It’s based on your feeling experiences with that – if you see the magic and must whisper aloud “Wow” – time doesn’t matter. Being more open and passionate is a key. If you travelling somewhere and meet 2 guys and 1 tall –beautiful lady, one of them is curly hair with sweet voice who is ready to jump from the chair along with 2 full bottles of water 5-10 times just to prove that objects fall down to the ground at the same time, then just say “hi” and give him a hug. Maybe he can entertain you with some magic shows. Good luck! — Giang, one of the students