Got this when filling out my FASFA:
Graduation and Retention rates
School Name Graduation Rate Retention Rate Transfer Rate
CALIFORNIA STATE U-MONTEREY BAY 39% 67% 51%
Doesn't look good.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
More Presentations
I guess this is it. My partners and I finally presented our topic Disk Partitioning last Friday. I felt it went pretty smooth and great for having three people presenting at the same time.
I'm suprised at questions Dr. Tao asked since I really didn't expect that level of technical sophistication from the audience.
Anyways, if you are reading this Dr. Tao here are some links for more information relating to the questions you asked and after seeing the complete answers you'll understand why I couldn't get into all the technical aspects since it would take quite some time.
From my primary blog I already posted this information in the past:
How to install 145 operating systems on one PC
The main problem to overcome is Windows limitation of having to be installed on a primary partition. Other OS don't usually have this problem.
Here is the information I mentioned on the reliabilty of Macosx compared to Windows from a recent study:
ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results
Which servers and hardware have the least amount of downtime i.e. crashes, etc per year?
Some interesting results for Macosx in there.
Let's just say I'm not suprised Microsoft came in last.
So that it's I guess. I must say all the presentations I saw today were a lot better than the previous weeks. People probably had more time to polish them I'm thinking. See you next sememster.
I'm suprised at questions Dr. Tao asked since I really didn't expect that level of technical sophistication from the audience.
Anyways, if you are reading this Dr. Tao here are some links for more information relating to the questions you asked and after seeing the complete answers you'll understand why I couldn't get into all the technical aspects since it would take quite some time.
From my primary blog I already posted this information in the past:
How to install 145 operating systems on one PC
The main problem to overcome is Windows limitation of having to be installed on a primary partition. Other OS don't usually have this problem.
Here is the information I mentioned on the reliabilty of Macosx compared to Windows from a recent study:
ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results
Which servers and hardware have the least amount of downtime i.e. crashes, etc per year?
Some interesting results for Macosx in there.
Let's just say I'm not suprised Microsoft came in last.
So that it's I guess. I must say all the presentations I saw today were a lot better than the previous weeks. People probably had more time to polish them I'm thinking. See you next sememster.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Presentations
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
October 12 - October 18
Graduate coming to class has been postponed once more.
Had someone from career center come visit instead.
Alot of what she said was review for me because she covered most of the same stuff during student orientation.
Suprisingly alot of question asked during class so I didn't get to ask the one question I had which was if Google, Microsoft, Apple or some of the other major companies in IT sent representatives during the career fair on campus?
I guess I could look it up because she did say a list was kept somewhere.
Had someone from career center come visit instead.
Alot of what she said was review for me because she covered most of the same stuff during student orientation.
Suprisingly alot of question asked during class so I didn't get to ask the one question I had which was if Google, Microsoft, Apple or some of the other major companies in IT sent representatives during the career fair on campus?
I guess I could look it up because she did say a list was kept somewhere.
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