RICHARD STALLMAN, FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION.
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.
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Christopher J. Randall, J CIV DMD C.
Building scalable and secure applications for the Department of Defense presents special challenges. Congressional requirements, budgetary constraints, and the changing landscape of government contracts all provide hurdles that make the jobs of developers, managers and technical architects difficult meeting the ever-increasing information technology needs of the Department. In this talk we'll look at doing software development and project management in this environment, and investigate some real-world success stories.
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Tom Hepner, IBM.
When clients use VMware "virtualization" to provide multiple operating systems, many questions arise about backing-up and management of "guest" data. Additional concerns come up with protecting the "guest" virtual machine. VMware users can protect both data and environment using Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Bare machine recovery generally includes the overhead of performing a re-installation of the virtual machine guest operating system. Using TSM on the host system, recovery of the virtual machine's operating system is possible without reinstallation. This talk explains backup methods for the complete restore of VMware virtual machines as well as individual "guest" data. It also covers implementation hints and new VMware utilities written to improve and expedite data and environment protection.
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Tom Hepner, IBM.
When clients use VMware "virtualization" to provide multiple operating systems, many questions arise about backing-up and management of "guest" data. Additional concerns come up with protecting the "guest" virtual machine. VMware users can protect both data and environment using Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Bare machine recovery generally includes the overhead of performing a re-installation of the virtual machine guest operating system. Using TSM on the host system, recovery of the virtual machine's operating system is possible without reinstallation. This talk explains backup methods for the complete restore of VMware virtual machines as well as individual "guest" data. It also covers implementation hints and new VMware utilities written to improve and expedite data and environment protection.
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Jason Shankel, Maxsi.
The art of computer game design is beginning to mature into a craft. This talk presents the key elements and emerging vocabulary of computer game design.
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David Singer, IBM.
What is Web 2.0? A technology? A social concept? Is it even new? How is it being used by IBM and others?
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Ted Hill, Georgia Tech and Cal Poly SLO.
A century-old empirical observation now called Benford's Law says that the significant digits of many real datasets are logarithmically distributed, rather than uniformly distributed, as might be expected. New discoveries show that geometric Brownian motion (hence the stock market), and many algorithms including Newton's method also follow Benford's Law. This talk will briefly survey some of the colorful history of the problem, and applications to fraud detection, analysis of running times of algorithms, and diagnostic tests for mathematical models. The talk will include graphical heuristics, examples and open problems, and will be aimed for the non-specialist.
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John Sullins, Philosophy Department, SSU.
Roboethics is the new field emerging around the rapid advances in robotics. How are we to program machines that are to interact with people in social settings? How can we make these machines behave ethically and in a manner sensitive to the humans they interact with. This talk will survey the current thoughts on this subject looking at the roboethics movements and initiatives in the EU, Korea and Japan and the surprising lack of Roboethics research found in America.
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