Computing News: Earthquake Detection

From The Wired Campus:

Seismologists at the University of California at Riverside and Stanford University are creating an earthquake-detection network on the cheap by using distributed-computing technology to link up laptop computers that have built-in motion sensors. The researchers’ Quake-Catcher Network has already detected several quakes — in Nevada in April and in Los Angeles in late July.

Check out their website to find out how you can join the Quake-Catcher Network with your own laptop or desktop!

ACM Panel: Globalization & Technology

UW Tacoma's ACM chapter is hosting a panel on Thursday, October 23rd at 2:30pm in Carwein Auditorium.

From the flyer:

Technology is enabling the world to connect in diverse ways! Technologists need to focus on making effective use of global markets and resources. Join us in this discussion of various perspectives and challenges faced by technologists in a global society.

All are welcome!

PANELISTS:

• Nitin Ahuja (Entercoms)
• Lewis A. McMurran (WTIA-Washington Technology Industry Association)
• Samir Manjure (Microsoft Corporation)
• George Mobus (University of Washington Tacoma)

The Institute on Facebook!

Join the Institute of Technology on Facebook! Become a fan and post your own pictures, videos, and comments. Post info about an upcoming student org meeting, pictures from your latest trip to Chalet Bowl, cool stuff you have been learning at your internship, an invitation for getting down to serious business on Rock Band or Halo, or the latest idea you have been pondering.

Alumni of the Institute should join too and let us know what life is like after graduation!

Institute Web site updated!

Hi all! Please take a look at our updated web site for the Institute of Technology! We have made several additions/changes and basically jazzed up the site! What do you think? We plan to do more but any input would be appreciated.

Joe

Local and Regional Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Events

Mark your calendars for a couple of upcoming events if you have an interest in computer and information security. The first is coordinated and produced by and the second is being participated in by the Grey Hat Group, a student organization at the University of Washington, Tacoma dedicated to promoting awareness, education, and research into computer security. The event the group is presenting, now in its second year, is the Northwest Security Symposium. Knows as NWSec, the event features student, academic, and professional presentations on topics ranging from cryptography to computer forensics.

The conference is scheduled for May 7th and 8th, 2008 and will provide a broad perspective and in-depth technical sessions based on leading information assurance and cyber security topics. This event invites local businesses, military personnel, and Fortune 500 corporations to interact with each other, increase awareness of critical issues, and view important academic and industry presentations.

Presentations will be given in the Carwein Auditorium of the Keystone building on the UWT Campus and has a great array of speakers from Dickie George to Kirk Bailey. Check it out on their web site.

The Grey Hats are also competing in the upcoming 1st Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on April 26 – 27, 2008 in conjunction with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity, University of Washington. The event will happen on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond and is similar to the great event that the group held with West Point and Fort Lewis last year.

Hello

Hi all!! My name is Joe Contris and I am the new Program Administrator with the Institute of Technology. My background is in management and behavioral health. I am guitarist that plays around Tacoma in a band called Near the Beat. Check out our Myspace if you would like:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=247186172

It is great to be a memeber of the UW family!

Joe

UPE at UWTECH

Nearly two dozen students, alumni and faculty at the Institute of Technology were recently inducted into the new UW Tacoma chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international honor society for computing science, engineering and technology.

“Joining UPE is an honor,” said Associate Professor George Mobus, a longtime member of the organization. “Having UPE here at UW Tacoma is a recognition of the quality of our program and of our students.”

UPE’s mission is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the computing and information disciplines. A member of the Association of College Honor Societies, UPE is the only international honor society in the computing and information field.

The charter’s first initiates are: Students Amelia Annest, Alan Boulet, Craig Deitering, Alan Fowler, Pat Kuhlman, Randy McCoy, Michael Munsey, Craig Niyama, Kyle Shanafelt, Erik Sherbon, Ruslan Slobodyanik, Michael Spiz and Jonathan Veilleux. Also initiated were alumni Iyad Alaqrabawi, Daniel Blair, Robert Bunge and Kristen Shinohara, Assistant Professor Dan Zimmerman and Institute of Technology Director Orlando Baiocchi.

The Institute of Technology was launched in 2001 to cultivate a highly educated and knowledgeable workforce to support the state's high-tech sector and spur economic development in the South Sound region. The Institute offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Systems and Computing and Software Systems. To learn more about the Institute of Technology, visit www.insttech.washington.edu.