All CS students are invited and encouraged to come to the spring picnic!

Andrew Danner will talk about Scalable Algorithms for Terrain Analysis and GIS. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Chuck Groom '00 will be holding a workshop on skills useful in getting hired, such as interviewing, resume creation, and company targeting.

Joshua Steinhurst will talk about Practical Photon Mapping in Hardware. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Dr. Marian Petre will talk about Expert Software Designers: How They Imagine and Visualize Software. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Daniel Bilar will talk about Playing around with information (Quantitative Security Risk Analysis). Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Brent Heeringa, from the University of Massachusetts, will talk about Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Elaine Huang ('98) will be here from Georgia Tech to give a talk about Making Things Fit: Large Shared Displays for Supporting Workgroup Interactions. The talk starts at 3pm, with cookies and beverages after the talk at 4pm.

David Hovemeyer will be giving a talk about FindBugs--a static bug-finder for Java programs. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Vic Zandy, a research scientist at the IDA Center for Computing Sciences, will present An Introduction to Plan 9.

Aravind Srinivasan from the University of Maryland will be hereto give a talk titled An Invitation to Randomized Algorithms.

David Liben-Nowell, from Carleton College, will present a talk about "small-world phenomena" with the title GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS.

"Living in a Peta-flop World" -- Pat Miller, Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, will talk about old models of programming and new petaflop architectures (machines with hundreds of thousands of processors). He will discuss Livermore's Petascale Simulation Initiative which is developing new MPMD programming models; pyMPI, his parallel tool for interacting with thousands of processors; and his hobby project -- Science by FlashMob, which lets scientists cheaply and quickly create small to moderate sized parallel computer clusters.

Ben Kuperman will talk on useful things that you can do in vim that you might not already know. He will focus on basic editing and programming tools. We'd like it to be interactive, so bring those questions and "gee, I wish I could make it do X" issues and we'll get it solved! Vim users of any experience level should feel free to attend and join in to both learn and share.

Bring your lunch and come hear talks by CS faculty and students. First one is Sept. 5: Meet the SysAdmins. See Tia'sCS Lunch page for more details and the fall 2005 schedule.

Come meet the CS department faculty and staff. Join us for root beer floats and ice cream. All students in or interested in CS are welcome. If it's raining, we'll meet in the main CS lab (240).

If you're a CS student that is new to unix, come learn what you need from the sysadmins. The first week we'll cover the basics (Using Unix 1), and the second week we'll cover a bit more (Using Unix 2). See our Using Unix page for more info.