Join ACM for the Microsoft Programming Competition:
What: Microsoft Programming Competition
When: Monday 4/20/2009, at 6:15pm for ~3 Hours
Where: Boelter 4760

There will be 3 persons from Microsoft attending, and great prizes to be won.

Programming Competition
3 Coding Problems to be written in any language of your choosing. You must submit the output and the code.

The output will be marked against the test cases, and the top contestants will receive excellent prizes.

Open to graduate and undergraduate students!.

FYI: Undergraduate problems should be very doable with knowledge from CS 31/32.

What: Cisco Research Tech Talk
Where: ENGR IV: 54-134
When: Thursday, April 23, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Dr. Steven Fraser, Director
Cisco Research Center
Software "Best" Practices, Agile Deconstructed

"Best" really depends on context ‐ and this introduction to software "best" practices will focus on the evaluation and integration of the practices that constitute many of today's "Agile" methods. One of the interesting observations made by members of the software community is that "what is old ‐ is new again" when it comes to Agile. Another observation is that "best" is not universally applicable and boundary conditions do apply ‐ due to variations in customers, competition, context, culture, tools, scale and scope ‐ of the systems developed. This talk ‐ intended for researchers, practitioners, managers and educators ‐ does not require any specific programming knowledge and has evolved over the past ten years based on experience gleamed at several multinational organizations developing large software systems.

Please see the attached pdf for additional information regarding the speaker.

Advanced Bionics, LLC is offering a four hour discussion on May 1st, 2009 covering the technical difficulties facing software engineers.

Advanced Bionics, LLC makes cochlear implants, and is headquartered in Valencia, CA, but our software department is located in Sylmar, CA. For more information about who we are and what we do, please visit www.bionicear.com.

The day will be spent discussing the architecture and infrastructure of AB’s fitting software, SoundWave. SoundWave is a C# WinForms application developed over the past five years used to adjust stimulation settings for one or more cochlear implants on a patient. SoundWave has a multilayer Service Oriented Programming (SOP) architecture that uses our own implementation of an Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) infrastructure to handle everything from thread marshalling to enforcement of our state machine rules. Multiple static threads are used to keep SoundWave responsive.

What: Advanced discussion of technology challenges
When: 1pm to 4pm May 1st, 2009
Where: Encino, CA (RSVP for specifics)
Presenter: Phillip S. Givens, Principal Software Engineer, Advanced Bionics, LLC.

Target Audience: Junior and above Computer Science students.

If you are looking for an internship or entry level position, feel free to bring your resume and be prepared to talk to me about projects that you are proud of. As we need at least five participants for this presentation to go forward, please email Mr. Phillip Givens at Phillip.givens [at] advancedbionics [dot] com to RSVP.

Please see the attached flyer for additional details.