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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.

30 April 2010: [TPG] CPU emulators

  • Where: Cameron Hall Loft

  • 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

  • 07-May-2010: Andrew Williams and Dave Emrich (DAV) - Murchison Widefield Array being built at the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array
  • 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
  • [AHC]