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Friday, October 22nd, 2004 |
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8:00a |
Check-in Begins
Siebel Center Atrium |
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9:00a |
Computing Job Fair
Siebel Center Atrium
Register and Submit Your Resume Online
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| 10:00a |
| 11:00a |
| noon |
| 1:00p |
| 2:00p |
| 3:00p |
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4:30p |
Opening Reception
Dinner catered by Za's Italian Cafe
Grainger Engineering Library, Second Floor |
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6:30p |
Welcome and Introduction
1404 Siebel Center |
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7:00p |
"How to use years of extensive training in engineering and the arts
to sell popcorn and soft drinks"
Chris Horvath, Tweak Films
1404 Siebel Center |
| 8:30p |
Puzzle Wrap-up
www.acm.uiuc.edu/puzzle
1404 Siebel Center |
MechMania X Kick-off / API Release
2405 Siebel Center
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2004 |
| 7:30a |
Breakfast from Bagelmen's Bakery
Siebel Center Atrium |
| 8:00a |
"Entrepreneurship"
Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, Former Apple Fellow
1404 Siebel Center |
| 9:00a |
"Edna St. Vincent Millay Was Right"
Thomas Cormen, Dartmouth College
1404 Siebel Center |
"Behind the Scenes:
Development of the Danger hiptop"
Brian Swetland, Danger, Inc.
1320 Digital Computer Lab |
| 10:30a |
"Programming Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Using the Cilk Multithreaded Language"
Charles Leiserson, MIT
1404 Siebel Center |
"A Random Walk
Through Computer Science"
Owen Astrachan, Duke University
1320 Digital Computer Lab |
| noon |
Lunch from Blimpie's Sandwiches
Siebel Center Atrium |
| 1:00p |
"Free Knowledge: The Practical Revolution"
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder
1404 Siebel Center |
"GPUs: They're Not Just For Your Grandma to Play Quake, Anymore"
Nick Triantos, NVIDIA Corporation
1320 Digital Computer Lab |
| 2:30p |
"Public Distributed Computing with BOINC"
David Anderson, SETI@Home
1404 Siebel Center
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"A Real-Time Programmable Particle System Engine"
Andrea Pessino, Ready at Dawn Studios
1320 Digital Computer Lab |
| 4:00p |
"Optimizing for the G5 using Shark"
Sanjay Patel, Apple Computer
1404 Siebel Center |
"Designing and Developing Games using Licensed Properties"
Richard Gray, Ritual Entertainment
Chris Stockman, Volition, Inc.
1320 Digital Computer Lab |
| 5:30p |
Dinner from Longhorn Smokehouse
Siebel Center Atrium
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| 7:00p |
"Backstage Magic: A historical, behind-the-scenes look
at the role computers play in Disney's theme park attractions"
Mark Andersen, Walt Disney Imagineering
1404 Siebel Center |
| 8:30p |
"Shaping Things to Come"
Bruce Sterling, Wired Magazine and Bestselling Author
1404 Siebel Center |
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Sunday, October 24th, 2004 |
| 8:00a |
Breakfast from Bagelmen's Bakery
Siebel Center Atrium |
| 9:00a |
"The Last, Unanticipated, and Politically Incorrect Step Toward Genuine Machine Intelligence"
Stephen Thaler, Imagination Engines
1404 Siebel Center |
| 10:30a |
George Stathakopoulos, Microsoft
1404 Siebel Center |
"Software Freedom After SCO: GPL and the Evolving Free Software Ecosystem"
Brad Kuhn, Free Software Foundation
1320 Digital Computer Lab |
| noon |
Lunch from Za's Italian Cafe
Siebel Center Atrium |
| 1:00p |
"A perfectly good hour wasted with Phil Zimmermann"
Phil Zimmermann, Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
1404 Siebel Center |
| 2:30p |
MechMania X Final Showdown
1404 Siebel Center |
