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Spring 2008
Don't like folding? Let your computer do it and cure cancer while you're at it!
Joseph Coffland, President, Cauldron Development LLC
9:40 AM
May 9, 2008
MEC 307
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project at Stanford University which aims to find cures for cancers and other diseases by simulating the behavior of proteins. Proteins are tiny molecules which carry out many critical functions in our bodies. Proteins start out as long chain molecules which self-assemble or fold into shapes that determine how they function. It is believed that diseases such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, Mad Cow disease and many cancers are caused by what is called protein misfolding. It is hoped that by better understanding protein folding, drugs can be designed which can prevent protein misfolding and cure the related diseases.
Although protein folding generally occurs within a few tens of microseconds, simulating these relatively short events accurately takes massive computing resources. This is why the Folding@Home project needs your help. By downloading and installing a small program you can donate the computing power of your home computer or laptop when you are not using it. Hundreds of thousands of computers are already connected to the Folding@Home network which in 2007 helped the project become the world’s first computing system to break the one petaFLOP barrier.
Industry View of Technology Trends & Careers
Ivan Lumala, Microsoft Corporation
3:40 PM
April 29, 2008
MEC 114
Ivan Lumala is an Academic Relations Manager at Microsoft Corporation. In this role, Ivan cultivates and nurtures strategic relationships between Microsoft and partner universities in six western states. Ivan has worked at Microsoft for the past 16 years in several technical and managerial roles, including 12 years on the Visual Studio team as a Software Design Engineer in Test and a lead Quality Assurance Manager. He holds a masters degree in software engineering from Seattle University, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Seattle Pacific University. Ivan is also the co-founder of Leadership Advancement International
(LAI) www.laiweb.org, an organization with a mission to bridge the leadership divide in developing countries.
Run-time Adaptation in Future Multi-Core Architectres
Dan Conners, University of Colorado, Boulder
4:40pm
April 10, 2008
MEC 114
Emerging multi-core processor designs create an unparalleled computing
paradigm capable of advancing scientific areas, including medicine, data
mining, biology, physics, and earth sciences. These designs are the cornerstone
of all future general-purpose and high-performance computing
systems. However, a crisis is developing because the trends in multi-core
hardware technology have advanced far ahead of the advances in software
technology. Realizing the full potential of future multi-core machines requires
building new run-time systems capable of adapting thread-level behavior to
changing applications needs as well as the execution environment change. In
turn, multi-core architectures create can enable new services such as
run-time profiling, optimization, fault tolerance and security. This talk will
explore the topic of run-time adaptation in the future areas having significant
influence in computer systems design: performance of shared resources,
power related issues (energy/temperature) and fault tolerance/reliability.
Volta: Parting the Cloud
Wes Dyer, Microsoft
12:40pm-1:30pm
26th Feb. 2008
MEC 114
Writing data-intensive, asynchronous, multi-tier applications for the
web is difficult. It is done either by experts who piece together a
plethora of languages, tools, and frameworks or by depending on
technology that is not widely available. Volta radically simplifies web
programming while requiring only standards-based technology. Using
Volta, programmers can write web applications that are correct, clear,
secure, robust, and beautiful. This talk will introduce the technical
underpinnings of the Volta projects, and demonstrate practical
examples of its usage.
Bio: Wes Dyer is a member of the Volta project - http://labs.live.com/volta/
at Microsoft where he designs and builds programming languages and tools
to help developers with concurrency, distributed computation, web
programming,and data integration. He is also a member of the C#
language design team. Previously, he worked on the C# 3.0 compiler
adding support for functional programming and Language INtegrated
Querying (LINQ).
Spring 2007
Stock Markets & Algorithmic Trading
Paul Price & Brian Hill
Clearwater Advisors, LLC
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
3:40pm - 4:30pm, MEC 114
Pizza and drinks will be served!
Balihoo – Search 2.0
Vince Martino – Chief Operating Officer, Alex Mueller – Director of Software Engineering, Mike Moser – DBA, Software Developer
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
3:40pm-4:30pm, MEC 114
Fall 2006
Immersive and Interactive Spaces: Computer Vision in Support of Human-Computer Interaction over Wide Areas
Dr. Christopher Jaynes,
Director of Collaborative Rendering Environment
Research Laboratory—University of Kentucky
Thursday, August 31, 2006
2:00 PM MEC 114
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