Computer Society Fall Callout

Officers present: Derrick Kearney, Greg Veldman, Justin Miller, Shawn Debnath, Seth Heckard, Will Andrews

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The Computer Society President Derrick Kearney welcomed everyone and invited them to the free Papa Johns pizza provided. For the benefit of anyone new, Derrick described who the Computer Society is, and what we do.

"Our goals are to spread knowledge about computer engineering and technology, to get students involved in outside of class engineering projects, and to provide computing resources to students and student organizations. Every year, the Computer Society is involved with organizing events related to the fields of computer science and engineering."

After the introduction, Derrick went on to describe what the Computer Society has in store for this year. A handout was pass around which lists the dates of speakers the Computer Society has invited to come give talks at Purdue.

September

9/12/2002 - Professor Doerschuk's talk on Parallel Processing and Biomedical Imaging

9/26/2002 - Professor Gui Talk on Robotics

October

10/17/2002 - Chris Bailey - Kellogg from CS590B Talk on Bio Informatics

10/25/2002 - Free Software Foundation's VP Bradley Kuhn speech on GPL, Copyleft, and Software Freedom

After describing what Computer Society has in store this semester, Derrick went on to give a little history on what we have done already. This included the PUCC Machine Room tour last semester.

The final segment of the callout included descriptions of some projects that the Computer Society is working on now and included an invitation for anyone to help out.

RSA Encryption

Zach Wiggins described his plans to use cluster computing to help crack RSA encryption

Computer Society System Administration

Greg Veldman described what machines csociety has on the network and their purpose. This info is also on the Network info page.

SIGOPS Project

Shawn Debnath described his current project of implementing a modern Operating System. More info can be found at crix.tigris.org.

The callout was opened to discussion after this.

Anyone who could not attend the meeting and is still interested in becoming a member should check out our Membership Application (PostScript format) and return a completed application form to the Computer Society office in EE 14.