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Contents 1 Current Semester 1.1 An Introduction to Machine Learning (Sunday, April 15th, 1pm RKC 103) 1.2 Computer Vision for Internet Video Search (Monday, Feb 20th, 7:30 pm RKC 102 ) 2 Previous Semesters 2.1 Creating Coding Workshop (Saturday, Nov 12 RKC 103) 2.2 Maker Faire (Saturday, September 17, 2011 NYC) 2.3 Top Secret Rosies (Friday, September 9, 2011) @ 3:30 Weis Cinema 2.4 What We Did This Summer (Tuesday, September 6, 2011 @ 4:30pm RKC 111) 2.5 What is Watson? (March 3, 2011 @ 3:30pm and 4:45pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium) 2.6 Jeopardy: IBM'S Watson vs. Ken Jennings (February 14, 2011 @ 6:30pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium) 2.7 Linux Installfest (September 30, 2010 @ 6:00pm RKC 100) 2.8 What We Did This Summer (September 9, 2010 @ 5:00pm RKC 100) 2.9 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (April 27, 2010 @ 4:30pm RKC 100) 2.10 Distributed Version Control with Mercurial (April 21, 2010 @ 6pm RKC 221/100) 2.11 The Unix Command-line (March 3, 2010 @ 6pm RKC 221/100)

Current Semester

An Introduction to Machine Learning (Sunday, April 15th, 1pm RKC 103)

• Michael Littman, Chair and Professor, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University

Computer Vision for Internet Video Search (Monday, Feb 20th, 7:30 pm RKC 102 )

• Sangmin Oh, Kitware Inc.

Previous Semesters

Creating Coding Workshop (Saturday, Nov 12 RKC 103)

• Ira Greenberg gives a day long workshop on using the Processing programming environment

Maker Faire (Saturday, September 17, 2011 NYC)

• Group trip to NYC to the Maker Faire
• Student tickets are $10
• Metro North tickets are $31.50 roundtrip

Top Secret Rosies (Friday, September 9, 2011) @ 3:30 Weis Cinema

• LeAnn Erickson present's her documentary "Top Secret Rosies" about the female computers of WWII.

What We Did This Summer (Tuesday, September 6, 2011 @ 4:30pm RKC 111)

• Nabil Hosian- REU @ Houston
• Anis Zaman - REU @ Harvard

What is Watson? (March 3, 2011 @ 3:30pm and 4:45pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium)

• IBM's Adam Lally speaks about Jeopardy-winning Watson.

Jeopardy: IBM'S Watson vs. Ken Jennings (February 14, 2011 @ 6:30pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium)

• Come see IBM's Watson computer take on Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings
• Rebecca Thomas will give us a short lecture on game-playing AI, followed by the match @ 7pm

Linux Installfest (September 30, 2010 @ 6:00pm RKC 100)

• Linux Installer CD's, Live CD's and VirtualBox images will be available!
  • Installing Ubuntu via VirtualBox
  • Installing Ubuntu

What We Did This Summer (September 9, 2010 @ 5:00pm RKC 100)

• Ben Selfridge - Internship @ SET Corporation
• Amar Dinsa - Open Source Project picevolve
• Adina Stoica - REU @ Clemson
• Michael Walker - Internship at Zynga
• Abhimanyu Sheshashayee - REU @ Bard
• Nazmus Saquib - REU @ William and Mary
• Anis Zaman & Aaron Strauss - BSRI @ Bard
• Maksim Tsikanovich - REU @ RIPS/UCLA/IBM

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (April 27, 2010 @ 4:30pm RKC 100)

• IMDB and wikipedia

Distributed Version Control with Mercurial (April 21, 2010 @ 6pm RKC 221/100)

• Mercurial
• bardseminar project on bitbucket
• Mercurial Cheat Sheet Media:MercurialUsage.png
• "Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems" and a slide-showby Bryan O'Sullivan
• Another nice slide-show by Martin Geisler
• Mercurial book
• Tutorials 1 2
• Google's analysis of distributed version control systems
• Host your open-source project on code.google.com or bitbucket
• Graphical Front-Ends murky (macos) and tortoiseHG (windows/linux/macos)

The Unix Command-line (March 3, 2010 @ 6pm RKC 221/100)

• Unix cheat-sheets: File:Fwunixref.pdf and File:Cheatsheet.pdf
• Texas A&M Unix Tutorial
• Putty -- SSH for windows