Revision of Thursday Extras from Fri, 2009-09-11 08:28
Thursday Extras is a series of occasional talks organized and sponsored by the Department of Computer Science.
The faculty sponsor and organizer of the group is John Stone. If you're interested in presenting a Thursday Extra, send e-mail to Mr. Stone or drop in at his office (Science 2418).
We invite everyone in the Grinnell College community to attend these talks!
2009-2010 series
September 17: Dennis Vaccaro 2011: Graphical user interface development
using the Qt toolkit.
September 10: Jerod Weinman: Efficient machine learning for
computer vision-based depth perception.
2008-2009 series
April 30: Ian Bone 2009 and Tony Leguia 2009: Data compression.
April 24: Michael Neff (University of California, Davis):
Designing computational representations of expressive movement.
April 16: Tim Miller 2009 and Pat Rich 2010: ADAPT: Audience Design of
Ambient Persuasive Technology.
April 9: Brooks Davis (The Aerospace Corporation): Reflections on building a high-performance
computing cluster using FreeBSD.
April 2: Alexi Brooks 2010: Problem solving techniques.
February 12: John Stone: Keeping stuff: how to preserve course papers
despite technological change.
February 5: Sam Rebelsky: Media scripting.
January 29: Sam Rebelsky, Jerod Weinman, and John Stone: Summer research opportunities in computer science.
January 22: Ian Th Atha 2009 and Ian Bone 2009: Getting a job: big
companies, small companies.
December 4: Dave Herman 2000: Adventures in ECMAScript
and
Reasoning about hygienic macros.
November 20: Ted Cooper 2009 and Alexi Brooks 2010: Sketch-based
Bargello: alternative computer-aided design.
November 13: Henry Walker: Placing incoming students in
CS/Math/Statistics: from version 1.3 toward version 2.0.
November 6: Ian Bone 2009: JavaScript in the real world.
October 30: Emily Jacobson 2009: SOUSA: the Sketch-Based Online User
Study Application.
October 9: Janet Davis and Jerod Weinman: Applying to graduate school in
computer science.
October 2: Henry Walker: Games in the computer science classroom: good
or evil?
September 18: Kathy Iberle (Hewlett-Packard Development Company): Is there life after school?
September 11: Theocharis "Ian" Athanasakis 2009: Data-intensive scalable
computing.
September 4: John Stone: Liberty through license: the GPLv3 and other
free-software licenses.
2007-2008 series
May 1: Elijah Buck 2008: The FreeBSD sysctl system: getting
and setting kernel parameters.
April 24: Janet Davis: Engaging and informing citizens with Household
Indicators.
April 17: Elijah Buck 2008: The User Consultant Data Base: challenges of
long-term development and maintenance.
April 3: Cassie Schmitz 2005: Developing software for e-government.
March 6: John Stone: The .doc is out: The Open Document Format
and its prospects.
February 28: C. M. Lubinski 2008: Spiffy debugging with
gdb.
February 21: Theocharis "Ian" Athanasakis 2009: Summer at Google:
automating a gargantuous data flow.
February 14: Cable Thompson 2008: Developing a robotic assistant
for people with impaired mobility.
February 7: Marge Coahran, Janet Davis, and Sam Rebelsky: Summer research opportunities in computer science.
January 24: Marge Coahran: Computer-assisted Bargello quilt design.
November 15: Soren Berg 2008 and David D'Angelo 2007: Scheme scripting
in Inkscape.
November 8: Tony Pan 2010 and Heather Whisenhunt 2008: Phoenix: a
scriptable non-linear functional video editor.
November 1: Cassie Sims 2008: Interactive visualization of protein
dynamics.
October 18: Ian Young 2008: Regular expressions and automata: speeding
up vim.
October 11: Ted Cooper 2009 and Emily Jacobson 2009: Efficient
pixel-manipulation in the GIMP.
October 4: Lorelei Kelly 2008, Max Kuipers 2009, and Tim Miller 2009:
DrFu: A crutch for the GIMP.
September 20: Tony Leguia 2009, Sorting out children by sorting out
digraphs: topological sorting of digraphs with outdegree four.
September 13: Sam Rebelsky and Janet Davis, DrFu: Media computing in
CS1.
September 6: John Stone, Large numbers. Really large.
2006-2007 series
May 10: Leonya Ivanov, Metamorphosis: programming the College's Web
presence.
April 26: Brooks Davis (The Aerospace Corporation), Open source development methods.
February 22: Christine Wang 2008 and Jonathan Tsu 2008, Development of
an online campus map.
February 8: Monica Ugwi 2008 and Eric Omwega 2008, Automation of the
athletic recruiting process.
February 1: Sam Rebelsky and Janet Davis, Summer research
programs in computer science.
January 25: John Stone, Xlife is beautiful.
December 7: Michael Lewis 2008 and Cable Thompson 2008, An investigation
of the applicability of the functional programming paradigm to 3D
graphics.
November 30: Rachel Heck 2001, Interactive character animation:
synthesizing in realtime with minimal effort.
November 16: Luis Zuleta-Benavides 2007 and Ian Lunderskov 2008,
Functional video scripting.
November 9: Tony Leguia 2009, Saugar Sainju 2008, and Ian Bone-Rundle 2009,
Functional multimedia: applying the functional paradigm to images.
October 31: Elizabeth Norton 2009 and Arunabh Singh 2009, Statistics can
be fun.
October 12: Angeline Namai 2007 and Eryn O'Neil 2007, Women in computer
science at Grinnell.
October 3: C. M. Lubinski 2008, Win 2 Lin: making
the transition and making it effective.
September 19: Mark Nettling 2007, Programming in the small business
world.
September 12: Kabenla Armah 2004, Yaw Nti-Addae 2004, and Leonya Ivanov,
On the (possible) significance of the statistically insignificant.
September 5: Furthering Grinnell's computer science community: a dialog
for students and faculty.
August 29: John Stone, Keeping up with the blogs: using RSS and Atom
feed readers to monitor dynamic Web sites.
