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Will Starbucks Serve Servers?

Would you like thin-client computing with your skinny latte?

Tech-savy baristas may be asking you these kinds of questions, if the thin-client research that computer science PhD student Cynthia Taylor is working on takes off. At the poster session at the Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) research review on Friday, Taylor gave me a quick rundown on her research.

Take home message: she wants to turn your iPhone (and related PDAs and comm devices) into an input/output device that hooks into local servers as well as servers across the Web. This would let you do all kinds of things that are too demanding for the local computational resources of a PDA.

Window into Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) Poster Session

This is the first of four informal interviews with graduate students who presented at the UC San Diego Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) poster session today. The poster session was part of the CWC Research Review (PDF of agenda here), which happens twice per year. (Info of past reviews is here.)

This first interview is with Haleh Azartash, who is a graduate student in electrical engineering professor Dr. Truong Nguyen's Video Processing Group.

Her poster describes her work on software and algorithmic methods for minimizing and eliminating camera motion and shake in video footage: Real Time Affine Global Estimation using Phase Correlation

iPhone app with UCSD Roots Named One of 10 Best Apps by Gizmodo

The TowerMadness roll continues...Gizmodo named them one of the week's best iPhone apps. The fact that they created a free version of the game that is supported by ads that are "not very annoying" seems popular with the blogosphere.

...it's amazing the things you learn when you don't turn off a Google Alert.

Hey Jacobs School?! What/who else (related to engineering) should we be monitoring via Google Alerts?

Smarter Than Genius on Slashdot /.

Research on building algorithms that make playlists as well as iTunes Genius landed on Slashdot today...from the "from the put-that-man-down dept. "

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/227236/Going-Head-To-Head-With-Genius-On-Playlists?from=rss

Jacobs School on YouTube

Do you know of any Jacobs-School-related videos that you think should be on the Jacobs School of Engineering YouTube channel? Let me know. dbkane AT ucsd DOT edu

Bit by bit, I am transfering videos to one YouTube video channel:
http://www.youtube.com/jacobsschoolnews

Below is a video profile of Jacobs School electrical engineering professor Pam Cosman.

IEEE Xtreme 3.0

A team of Jacobs School undergrads calling themselves "Team 'The Bagpipe Lubricators'" placed 16th overall (and 6th from United States) in a 24-hour online computer programming contest run by IEEE called IEEE Xtreme 3.0.

The official IEEE results page highlights how two Jacobs School computer programming teams finished in the top 25. The Bagpipe Lubricators finished 16th in the world, and Team XYZZY finished 19th in the world. 700 teams registered.

Jordan Ree is the caption of the Bagpipe Lubricators, and Elliot Slaughter is captain of XYZZY. I'll update this posting with the full names of both of these teams, when I get that info.

These two Jacobs School teams finished first and second in the region.

More pictures are posted: http://ieee.ucsd.edu/photos/album.php?album_id=115

The Mountain Dew can and empty pizza boxes are great.