6th June 2008

Chat with Alex Baker (BS `07) and Raziya Lockhart (BS `08)

BoI 0019 Chat with Alex Baker (BS `07) and Raziya Lockhart (BS `08). With Alex we chat about “What is informatics”, creating a self portrait in 3d and animating it (”Ears are tough to capture”),
being a .Net developer, and Infinistorm’s File Hurricane (http://www.filehurricane.com/) and Survey Hurricane, a Facebook to do MySpace like quizzes and surveys on Facebook.

Raziya Lockhart (BS `08), a new Informatics graduate, talks about her next steps with the Navy and her coolest moment in Informatics.

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10th April 2008

Chat with Professor Steven Johnson (Ph.D. `83) in Sept 2007

BoI 0018 Chat with Professor Steven Johnson (Ph.D. `83). We chat about the Control Data Corporation 6600 runningĀ  in the basement of the HPER building in 1974, being there at the dawn of the IU Computer Science Dept., getting a Ph.D. with a thesis titled “Synthesis of Digital Design from Recursion Equations“, designing the digital Logic Engine, and developing the course for the autonomous golf cart design (Embedded & Real-Time Systems, see images and videos page).

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21st March 2008

Chat with Tristian Schmid (MS `06) in Nov 2007

BoI 0017 Chat with Tristian Schmid (MS `06). We chat about IU Bloomington versus IUPUI Indianapolis, creating promo DVD and group project coordination, his Surround Sound capstone presentation, meeting his wife in ball room dancing class, and creating Angie’s List Podcast ‘List-en up!’.

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21st March 2008

Chat with Neal Moore (MS `04) in Aug 2007

BoI 0016 Chat with Neal Moore (MS `04). We chat about Microsoft versus Apple, the word ‘informtics’ or ‘informatica’, and his trip to St. Louis to pick up his 1958 Philco TV.

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15th January 2008

Chat with Jason Sisk (MS `03) in May 2007

BoI 0015 Chat with Jason Sisk (MS `03). We chat about what really is Informatics, learning on the Indy Vax clusters and pre IM systems (aka VMS Phone system), journalism, and applying informatics in life sciences.

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1st November 2007

Chat with Gary Shoulders (BS `07) in July 2007

BoI 0014 Chat with Gary Shoulders (BS `07). We chat about hard java programs, math, riding on the Little 500 Rainbow Cycling team, and participating in the iCycle project using RFID tags to track bikers as part of an Informatics Capstone Project.

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27th August 2007

BoI Season two opening show: What is Informatics?

BoI 0011 Intro to BoI Season two! Quick snippets of conversations with attendees to the New Media Consortium Summer Conference hosted in Jun 2007 at IUPUI. We chat about what is informatics, an EU perspective on informatics, and second life (the good and bad).

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16th June 2007

Chat with Ricardo Laranja (MS `03) in April 2007.

BoI 0010 Chat with Ricardo Laranja (MS `03) in April 2007. We chat about music, graphic modeling, rendering Ricardo as an orange, applied jazz, and Dancing with the Stars.

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3rd June 2007

Chat with Matt Hottell (MS `03) in March 2007.

BoI 0009 Chat with Matt Hottell (MS `03) in March 2007. We chat about basketball, IUSA, how student election campaigns are really run, and working on a Gregory Rawlins data structure project.

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21st May 2007

Chat with Kevin Erdman (BS `84) in January 2007.

Chat with Kevin Erdman (BS `84) in January 2007. We chat about Informatics as Dark Matter, chemistry to law, and some computer science history (do you remember John Buck or those 6809 Chieftains in the basement of Lindley Hall?).

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