Archive for October, 2007

This Friday@10am: Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation - October 31st, 2007

Richard Stallman is the Chief Gnu of the Free Software Foundation, the organization responsible for a substantial part of the utility of GNU/Linux system. He is also the intellectual father of the GNU General Public Licence, one of the most disruptive manifestos of the software age.

He will speak on:
** The Danger of Software Patents **

“Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.”

10:00am on Friday Nov 2nd at the CalIT2 Auditorium. The CalIT2 building is #325 at Coordinates H-8 on the UCI Campus Map:

If coming from off-campus, directions to UC Irvine can be found here:

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_07_map_loc.pdf

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PARC Internship opportunity — info, application, flyer - October 31st, 2007

From PARC (Palo Alto Research Center):

Every year, PARC invites highly qualified students to apply to our internship program. As one of the most prolific innovation centers in the world, we offer a truly exceptional internship experience.

Considered valuable members of our community, our interns are fully integrated into the daily activities of PARC’s highly collaborative, multidisciplinary culture. PARC interns have the opportunity to:
• work with leading researchers in the physical, computer, biological, and social sciences;
• pursue independent projects;
• engage in different stages of the research or business-development pipeline;
• participate in lab meetings, presentations, poster sessions, and special programs;
• receive authorship on publications or patents.

A number of PARC employees also started their careers here as interns, and previous interns overwhelmingly described their internships as one of “…the best experiences of my life, personally as well as professionally.”

PARC Internship Program details, culture, & application

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Nomatic*IM Version 0.0.1 Released - October 30th, 2007

Nomatic*IM logo

The Nomatic*IM team is proud to announce the release of Nomatic*IM 0.0.1.
You can download it from here
New features and enhancements:

Learning is aware of
* active processes,
* the process with focus.
Learning is improved
* it is sped up.
* it ignores data without enough support when learning by using information gain.
SQLLite is used to store local history.
Added windows to gui:
* a dashboard to show users sensor info.
* an about dialog
* a news window for pushing out announcements
There is now a preferences dialog
Added support for
* Windows (although there is much more to be done)
* Linux (also much work to be done)
Made a logo for the project
Improved start-up speed by serializing the AI model and saving it to disk.
Licensed the code under GPL v3

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Posted: 10/30/07 9:26 am UTC by Add Your Comment
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LUCI Website V1.5 is live - October 29th, 2007

LUCI website V1.5 is live.
This release includes a new bio for grad student: Eric Baumer
This release includes new code repository entries for: CONRAD, and SALi
And a few edits for format and consistency

Feedback is welcome. If you have any email Don (djp3@ics.uci.edu)

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Posted: 10/29/07 1:28 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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Students Today – Teachers Today - October 19th, 2007

So if this is what students today are like, how should a class today be taught?

If you are a student, please leave comments for the teachers.

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Posted: 10/19/07 4:20 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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Congratulations Sharon! - October 16th, 2007

Moleskins and Pens

Photo courtesy of paulworthington

Congratulations to Sharon Ding on passing her advancement to candidacy exam!

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LUCI Website V1.4 is live - October 8th, 2007

LUCI website V1.4 is live.

This release includes new bios for faculty: Bonnie Nardi

This release includes new bios for researchers: Charlotte Lee

This release includes new projects: The Technology Garden, and Nomatic*IM (actually this is just a rename of “Nomatic (for presence)” to “Nomatic*IM”

And many edits for format and consistency

Feedback is welcome. If you have any email Don (djp3@ics.uci.edu)

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Posted: 10/8/07 1:23 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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INF 290: Recent Research in Ubiquitous Computing - October 3rd, 2007

Announcing the Fall Quarter 2007 Reading Group:
INF 290: Recent Research in Ubiquitous Computing

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This reading group will continue the work from previous quarters of reviewing recent literature in the Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing communities. The emphasis will be on developing a familiarity with trends and directions being developed by active researchers. This quarter we will be reviewing papers from Pervasive 2008. A schedule will be located at the URL above after our first meeting.

The course code is 37307. If you are a student please register, although if that’s a problem don’t let it prevent you from coming anyway. We will meet Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30pm in DBH 5011.

On the weeks when papers are presented, they are presented by attenders. Powerpoint is discouraged. This is also a forum for students to give practice talks of interest to the audience if they would like to arrange for such a thing. In the past this has been done with much success.

Feel free to bring your lunch.

The first meeting will be tomorrow 10/3/2007. At this meeting we will organize and assign papers.

Please feel free to email Don or Nick Noack if you have any questions regarding the course.

Thanks,
Don

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