Make a Difference with IT: In this introductory segment, Jeremy Podany, Director of cereer services for the IU School of Informatics, sets the stage for the 2010 Make a Difference with IT event.
Mitchum Owen (MS `08) shares advice on freelancing as an option after graduation. Mitchum tells of his experience in getting into freelancing in California and the lessons he would like you not to repeat! Big advice: Do not self select!
Mitchum also provided a spread sheet to help figure out some of the dollars needed to make freelancing viable. Sheet is available here (Excel format).
Chat with Josh Froelich (BS `02). Josh talks about his first day at IU Bloomington, meaning of informatics, transferring into the new School of Informatics, and applying informatics with a broad perspective. Josh Froelich also authored a chapter on text mining in the second volume of Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2 (Details at http://www.springer.com/business/operations+research/book/978-3-540-48715-9).
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?).