Bits of Informatics

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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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). 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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