Bits of Informatics

Nicki Walter’s energy and enthusiasim to share ideas led her to create New Media Fuel

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:23:33 +0000

Nicki Walter - New Media Fuel, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Pascal Lola investigates the issues of creating an application for visual items like fabric

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:22:47 +0000

Pascal Lola - Rivatex: A Textile Database, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Jeremiah Reising uses his personal need for informal wedding photo site to create CaptureTheParty.com

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:21:31 +0000

Jeremiah Reising - CaptureTheParty.com, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Jeremiah Nickerson creates a documentry about his youth with an alcoholic father

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:20:21 +0000

Jeremiah Nickerson - Changing Faces, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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David Atwell brings elements of MMO games to Twitter and discoveres the hard parts of open API use

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:17:22 +0000

David Atwell - Phantom: A Pervasive Game, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Damon Weidner uses hardware to create an interactive art exhibition

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:16:35 +0000

Damon Weidner - Interactive Art Installation , Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Jun Kong brings Chinese culture to an audience through digital story telling

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:15:24 +0000

Jun Kong - Digital animation story: The Lost Horse, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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LeTasha Zdenek uses her portfolio as the base of her capstone presentation

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:14:26 +0000

LeTasha Zdenek - Portfolio Interactive Website, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Nick Mina talks about how he developed his Flash game Planet in Peril

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:13:56 +0000

Nick Mina - Planet in Peril, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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R. J. Finch uses summer internship experience to help educate people on finance

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:12:32 +0000

R. J. Finch - Future Finance Island, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Sean Donelson’s 20 minute short film Carrier: Zero Hour: Viral out break in small suburban town.

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:11:01 +0000

Sean Donelson - Carrier: Zero Hour, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Failure By Design - how to produce a sitcom

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:09:16 +0000

Ryan Baird, Andrew Talarzyk, and Amir Durakovic - Failure by Design, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Alexandra Casals explains her capstone and the struggle to get content from customer

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:08:35 +0000

Alexandra Casals - Delta Sigma Pi website, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Mansoor Siddeeq insight on using a Wii controller to watch movies

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:07:52 +0000

Mansoor Siddeeq - Wii-G Web, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Ginger White explains what ‘Inattentional Blindness’ is about.

BitsOfInformatics — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:01:49 +0000

Ginger White - Inattentional Blindness, Indiana University School of Informatics Capstone Presentation, Apr 30, 2010, at IUPUI.

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Indianapolis Entrepreneur Mark Hill Highlights Informatics Student Opportunities

BitsOfInformatics — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:41:46 +0000

Make a Difference with IT: In this last segment, Indianapolis entrepreneur Mark Hill, managing partner of Collina Ventures, shares his thoughts on the opportunity for Informatics students today.

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Jane Niederberger Shares Going From Nutrition to CIO of WellPoint

BitsOfInformatics — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:37:44 +0000

Make a Difference with IT: Jane Niederberger, President and COO at My Health Care Manager, shares how she started her career in health care with a degree Nutrition, made her way to becoming the CIO of WellPoint, and then taking on a lead role in a health care information startup designed to help those in eldercare make the most informed decisions possible.

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IU School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel Highlights School’s Vision and Future

BitsOfInformatics — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:32:01 +0000

Make a Difference with IT: IU School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel, presents the School of Informatics and its vision for the future.

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Jeremy Podany, Introduces the 2010 Make a Difference With IT event

BitsOfInformatics — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:31:56 +0000

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.

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Scott Sayler (BS ‘04) interview from Spring 2009

BitsOfInformatics — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:43:30 +0000

Scott Sayler (BS ‘04) on Informatics and taking advanatge of opportunities while in school.

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IU Informatics Panel at Plug and Play Tech Center

BitsOfInformatics — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:08:26 +0000

This is an Informatics networking panel discussion held at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA, on October 29, 2009. The group talks about entreprenurship, starting companies, and the links between IU and silicon valley.

Tim Walsh, Head of Structured Products, Silicon Valley Bank
Jitendra Kavathekar, President and CEO, Twiki Inc.
Ryan Floyd, Managing Director, Storm Ventures
Scott Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO, ExactTarget

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Alumni panel discussion from Computer History Museum April 30, 2009

BitsOfInformatics — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:22:37 +0000

Panel discussion with Informatics Dean Schnabel and guests during networking reception and panel discussion at the Computer History Museum April 30, 2009.

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Jake Barna (BS `05) shares thoughts on sports and informatics.

BitsOfInformatics — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:09:21 +0000

Jake Barna (BS `05) shares thoughts on sports and informatics.

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Mitchum Owen (MS `08) shares advice on freelancing

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:19:53 +0000

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).

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ChaCha presentation to IU School of Informatics, October 2008

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:16:49 +0000

ChaCha
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ChaCha presentation to IU School of Informatics students in Oct 2008. ChaCha presents their history and what they see as the opportunity for human powered search.

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Chat with Chauncey Frend (BS `08)

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:53:30 +0000

(l to r) Chauncey Frend and John Ludwick
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Chat with Chauncey Frend (BS `08). In this short chat, Chauncey talks about his immersive environment (lights, camera, action, smell!) and what he plans to do after graduating.

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IUPUI Senior capstone images and blog post reviews contain more.

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Chat with Josh Froelich (BS `02)

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:00:34 +0000

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).

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Chat with Jennette Fulda (BS `03)

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:20:49 +0000

Chat with Jennette Fulda (BS `03). Jennette talks about her early intro to journalism (5th grade newsletter), getting through journalisim requirement for IU degree, and on campus during September 11th watching the news. Jennette is also the author of Half-Assed: A Weight-loss Memoir and blogs regularly at PastaQueen (http://www.pastaqueen.com/ ). Her approach to the book was very much in the spirit of informatics: she took pictures of herself at eight different angles at different weights and put them in flash objects so she could show her progress (multiple pictures here. Try to get all of them to spin!).

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

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:58:16 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:35:01 +0000

BoI 0018 Chat with Professor Steven Johnson (Ph.D. `83). We chat about the Control Data Corporation 6600 running 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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Chat with Tristian Schmid (MS `06) in Nov 2007

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:00:16 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:52:30 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:16:02 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:08:26 +0000

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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Special BoI: Chat with Dr. Bobby Schnabel, Dean, IU School of Informatics.

admin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:44:58 +0000

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”.

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Chat with Lindsey Lawton (BS `06) in May 2007.

admin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:51:28 +0000

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.

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BoI Season two opening show: What is Informatics?

admin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:11:08 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:13:17 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:56:35 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:54:50 +0000

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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Chat with Harlon Wilson (BS `04, MS `05) in March 2007.

admin — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:41:29 +0000

Chat with Harlon Wilson (BS `04, MS `05) in March 2007. We (quickly) chat about what is ‘informatics’, and what Harlon is working to develop at Medical Animatics, Inc.

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Portmanteau Chat with John Ellis (BS `99) and Phil Dixon (BA `98) in January 2007

admin — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:24:36 +0000

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

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Chat with Ruth Walker (BS `77, MS `01) in January 2007.

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:42:18 +0000

Chat with Ruth Walker (BS `77, MS `01) in January 2007. We talk about health informatics, the state of health information today, and a bit about the history of the IUPUI campus.

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