Today people started their presentations and here is my overview on them:
Windows 7
Having used Windows 7 before it was even released to the public this presentation was pretty basic and review for me. I personally find Aero snap to be annoying so that is the first thing I disable on Windows 7. If you have a lot of windows open it will automatically move it to the edge if you get to close which is what I find annoying. I found their slides to be biased since my own personal obseravations and other website benchmarks show Windows XP to be faster than Windows 7 in most tasks.
Presenters did good job with coordination amongst themselves I must add.
IPTV
I have to admit I never head of this before now. I don't personally see it as going anywhere though since there have been similar technologies like Divx that never got popular and didn't go anywhere. The problem in my opinion is that the web is already suffering from bandwdith problems. I notice the internet actually being slower than several years ago before people started transfering tons of video, watching tv and making phone calls over the internet. At least that's what it seems like to me. They would have to come up with some really revolutionary compression to make any money.
iPhone Applications
Like the Windows 7 presentation a lot of this was repetitive for me since I've already dabled in iPhone programming before on my own. I'd guess the majority of the audience was lost with all the technical information on Xcode and Objective-C though. I'm looking forward to taking the iPhone class next semester.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
October 26 - November 1
Class cancelled.
Did come up with a topic for my presentation though.
GPGPU.
Actually, I ended up switching topics due to lack of communication from other student that wanted to work on this I decided to join another existing team that was going to present on disc partitioning. Since I am also very familiar with that topic and I have worked with Ronnie and David in the past I felt this was a better choice given the last minute circumstances.
Did come up with a topic for my presentation though.
GPGPU.
Actually, I ended up switching topics due to lack of communication from other student that wanted to work on this I decided to join another existing team that was going to present on disc partitioning. Since I am also very familiar with that topic and I have worked with Ronnie and David in the past I felt this was a better choice given the last minute circumstances.
October 19 - October 25
Thinking of topic for my presentation.
Today we had a guest speaker, Chris Khan, whom was a previous student at CSUMB. He works for a small business incubation here in Monterey. The reason Mr. Khan attended CSUMB was to obtain his masters degree and a career change from his previous job in the semiconductor industry. This class session involved questions in regards to what employers are looking for and what he had learned while attending CSUMB. This was asked of the presenter by Dr. Tao. The speaker was obviously very intelligent (graduated with science degree which I'm sure required tons of math even while partying as he claimed is quite an accomplishment) and driven. I remember him mentioning that he took in excess of 20 units per semester while attending to graduate early. I am currently doing the same and am questioning this wisdom. It seems Mr. Khan has someone reinforced my fears by confirming that he wished he hadn't taken so many units at once since he felt that his experiences weren't as optimal as he would've liked since he was busy with schoolwork.
Today we had a guest speaker, Chris Khan, whom was a previous student at CSUMB. He works for a small business incubation here in Monterey. The reason Mr. Khan attended CSUMB was to obtain his masters degree and a career change from his previous job in the semiconductor industry. This class session involved questions in regards to what employers are looking for and what he had learned while attending CSUMB. This was asked of the presenter by Dr. Tao. The speaker was obviously very intelligent (graduated with science degree which I'm sure required tons of math even while partying as he claimed is quite an accomplishment) and driven. I remember him mentioning that he took in excess of 20 units per semester while attending to graduate early. I am currently doing the same and am questioning this wisdom. It seems Mr. Khan has someone reinforced my fears by confirming that he wished he hadn't taken so many units at once since he felt that his experiences weren't as optimal as he would've liked since he was busy with schoolwork.
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