Bren:Alumni

The first class of Informatics graduates poses with a few of their professors in the Donald Bren Hall lobby.

On Saturday, June 14, the Bren School of ICS participated in UC Irvine’s 43rd annual commencement ceremony, conferring 204 Bachelor of Science and 46 advanced degrees.
The class of 2008 marks the first Informatics major graduates.
Founded in 2003, [...]

(1) A Petaflop/sec supercomputer was announced this week. The “Roadrunner” system at Los Alamos National Laboratory, developed by IBM, can perform 1,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. It is composed of 13,000 Cell processors (which can also be found in the PlayStation 3), and 7,000 dual core AMD chips (found in laptops), [...]

I ended my high school experience in December 1974.
“Technology in the Classroom” back then was those slide carousels synchronized with vinyl records that emitted a “ding” out the speaker that told the slide carousel to advance to the next slide (oooooo!)
Actual films, on reels, with clackety projectors, were shown, sometimes with sound. Sometimes they [...]

Last weekend I participated in the Alumni panel for ICS scholar day. This is probably the third or fourth time I’ve participated in the discussion and yet always enjoyable. Contrary to many other schools, ICS has seen a 55% rise in enrollments, a testament to the school that we call our alma mater.
The [...]

Etiquette: How to Leave a Great First Impression
Never leave a sour first impression again during any type of interview. When you first meet someone who is influential, make sure you’re dressed appropriately for the occasion. Give a handshake that exudes confidence. Speak eloquently and articulate clearly:
Speak clearly and at a moderate [...]

Good PDF of design patterns you may use in your coding.
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McDonalds: “interesting” food but good pattern documentation?
Someone pointed out a Design Patterns Card from McDonalds, the fast food restaurant, which is actually rather useful as a poster. Finally, something from McDonalds which might be good for you Note added after posting: this had nothing to [...]

UC Day will be Tuesday, March 4, in Sacramento.
UC Day is the annual event that brings together University of California family of alumni, stakeholders and friends to share their UC story with California’s elected officials in Sacramento. That message emphasizes the vital role that the University of California plays in:
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Governor has asked for a 10% budget cut across the board. The UC and CSU system needs your help on telling your government representatives that supporting education is important. Please click on the following link (it’s fast and simple) and fill out the form to send a note to your representatives -> http://www.ucforcalifornia.org/campaign/08budget_campaign
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The [...]

Dear Anteater:
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the 2008 UCI Homecoming Celebration. R.S.V.P. today for up to FOUR free tickets to the Men’s Basketball game against Cal State Northridge.
Saturday, March 1
Bren Events Center
Bring the whole family and join your Anteater family for a fun-filled afternoon at the Bren Events Center.
4 p.m.: Homecoming Celebration
FREE: Carnival games for [...]

There’s been quite some debate about the article from The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.   It states:
It is our view that Computer Science (CS) education is neglecting basic skills, in particular in the areas of programming and formal methods. We consider that the general adoption of Java as a first programming language is in part [...]