UCC talks - tentative

A fixed venue/time is yet to be decided - either Friday evening @ Cameron Hall Loft, or Friday 1pm in a seminar room on campus.

Where: Cameron Hall Loft, UWA Campus
When: 6pm for a 6:15pm start
Synopsis: Putting it simply, emulation makes one computer look like another. This can be as simple as changing a couple of settings on the host, to porting an entire API (like Wine does) to emulating the complete hardware. The purpose of this talk is to teach the basics of emulation, mostly focusing on hardware level.

Please be at the loft at 6pm if you'd like to order pizza - pizza will be organised to (hopefully!) arrive as the talk finishes.

Upcoming talks

Title: Dust, Frogs, and Radio Astronomy - what's going on now at the proposed 'Square Kilometre Array' site in the Murchison region
Where: Cameron Hall Loft, UWA Campus
When: 6pm for a 6:15pm start
Synopsis: Southern Africa and Australia are still competing to host the proposed 'Square Kilometre Array' (SKA), a radio telescope that will be more powerful than every other radio telescope in the world combined. The site decision won't be made until 2012, but smaller telescopes are being built at both of the proposed sites already. Andrew has been working on one of them - the 'Murchison Widefield Array' (MWA) telescope project - since 2007, David Emrich [DAV] is the commissioning engineer for the MWA, and Mark Glossop is working on software and system/network admin. Andrew's got a slideshow of pretty pictures and diagrams, and all three of us old-guard UCCans will talk about the MWA, other radio telescopes being built at the Australian site, and what it's actually like to work at the Australian SKA site.

Please be at the loft at 6pm if you'd like to order pizza - pizza will be organised to (hopefully!) arrive as the talk finishes.

14-May-2010: [AHC] - interfacing old hardware to new microcontrollers
[DJA] - UCC programming competition discussion/overview
- In Semester 2, UCC is (hopefully!) running a programming competition catering for everyone from beginners to experts. This talk will cover the rules, how to enter, and what to expect, as well as the odd hint or two about how not to fail completely.
- I could also possibly give a follow-up "how [not] to run a programming competition" technical talk - both about the technical side and the logistical side of how things work/worked/didn't work.
Zanchey - multi-user system security
Zanchey - how to give a talk/presentation
[AHC] - can do a talk or two on theoretical/practical networking basics if people are at all interested
[AHC] - writing clean, well structured C, and why you don't necessarily need an OO language