Tom Naps UMN OLLI courses
Below are the outlines for all courses I've taught since the Fall of 2022. Complete slides sets for courses are only retained for four weeks after completion of the course, so be sure to download the slides within that time frame if you want them. The overhead involved in maintaining my own webite at has made it prohibitive for me to store all slides longer than this. After four weeks, direct links to the slides within the outlines are no longer active, so expect "404 - Not found" errors if you click on them.
If you need a copy of the old slides from a course in the list, contact me at my email address and I'll try get those slides to you by sending them as a very large attachment to your email address.
- Decrypting Crypto: Updated (Fall 2026), co-teaching with Brad Horn
- Baseball and Statistics: A Love Affair (Fall 2026), co-teaching with Steve Anderson and Tom Rooney
- No More Secrets? The Past, Present, and Future of Cryptography (Spring 2026)
- Symmetry in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) - Winter 2026, co-teaching with Joe De La Cova, Alice De La Cova, Jane Glazebrook, Ana-Marija Nedic
- Minnesota Computer History at the U of M Charles Babbage Institute (Fall 2025), co-teaching with Amanda Wick, CBI Curator
- Using a (Virtual) Research Assistant - To Get Good Answers, We Must Ask Good Questions (Fall 2025)
- Can We Handle the Truth? (Spring 2025), co-teaching with Brian Tebbit
- Artificial Intelligence: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (Winter 2025)
- You're Never Too Old to Learn Like a Kid (Fall 2024), co-teaching with Sheilagh Johnson
- I'm sorry, Dave, I'm Afraid I Can’t Do That: What History Could Teach Us About Designing Humane AI (Spring 2024)
- Decrypting Crypto (Winter 2024), co-teaching with Brad Horn
- Know a Child Who Has an Itch To Learn Programming? Help Them Scratch It! (Fall 2023)
- It's Déjà Vu All Over Again (Spring 2023)
- Does P = NP? (Winter 2023)
- PrimalObsessions (Fall 2022)
Professional life before retiring and joining OLLI