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).
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!’.
BoI 0013 Special Chat with Dr. Bobby Schnabel, Dean, IU School of Informatics. We chat about Queens, hobbies, running, art, sports, and what is “informatics”.
BoI 0012 Chat with Lindsey Lawton (BS `06) in May 2007. We chat about HIA, starting out in Bloomington, moving to Indy/IUPUI, Javascript is hard, and and learning about budgeting for health IT.
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).
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.
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?).
Chat with John Ellis (BS `99) and Phil Dixon (BA `98). This is a Skype call redo as the first take went down the bit bucket. We chat about ‘informatics’ being a portmanteau word, the job market for graduates, and a bit of Lindley Hall history.
The Skype call has a few short of choppy parts, just move on past them