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Personal Statement For Computer Science

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“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” This famous quote by Bill Gate is what inspired my interest in the field of computer science. The unabated advances that have taken place in the field of computer science in the past few decades are a standing testimony to the fact that computers have a lot of potential of improving this world. I grew up at a time that coincided with these advances in modern computing. There is still tremendous development that can be done. This potential is what motivated me to pursue my undergraduate studies in this field. My academic experience in college provided me with a wide range of knowledge and skills. The first two years of my undergraduate study were about freshman courses like data structures, networks, database systems and algorithm design, which gave me a strong background in the basics of computer science. During the final two years of my study I took courses like computer security, program analysis, image analysis, machine learning and computer vision. Such a variety of courses helped in acquiring an overall perspective into this field. I developed a particular interest in pattern recognition, machine learning and image …show more content…

I am a proactive learner, who likes experiencing new things. I want to continue exploring the field of machine learning and human cognition. During the course of doing projects, I realized that machine learning is one field that has the largest potentials for improving the world we live in. Machine Learning is a part of artificial intelligence that you can see working very well. Most of the technology that surrounds us these days is making use of machine learning, from our cell phones to social media to ecommerce. This is one field where you can actually teach the machine to do things for you. Taking the example of Skype translator that was released in

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