From time to time I will put items here that may be of general interest.

• Our Institute Director, Professor Orlando Baiocchi, has scheduled his quarterly "Meeting with the Director" sessions for:
  
          Monday, October 19, 12:30 to 1:25 in Dougan 210
          Tuesday, October 20, 12:30 to 1:25 in Dougan 210
  
  I encourage you to attend and participate in one of the discussions. This is an opportunity for students to contribute in the collegial process of administration and evolution of our Institute of Technology.
  
  

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• Here is a presentation I gave to the Institute Advisory Board in January of 2009. It reflects on why and how the Institute was created. I believe you might find it informative and interesting.
  
        History of the Institute of Technology
  
  

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• I strongly recommend the Distinguished Lecture Series offered by our Seattle academic partner, the Computer Science & Engineering Department. If one can't attend these lectures live, they are also available via TV or the Internet (More complete information is available at: CSE Distinguished Lecture Series and at CSE Distinguished Lecture Series). The presentations offered this quarter are:
  
  

  Charles Simonyi (Intentional Software)
  Return to the Final Frontier
  Thursday, October 1, 2009

  3:30 pm, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
  Distinguished Lecturer Series

  Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young (Intellectual Ventures)
  Cooking in Silico: Understanding heat transfer in the modern kitchen
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009

  3:30 pm, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
  Distinguished Lecturer Series

  Brad Chen (Google, Inc.)
  The Desktop: Frontiers in Systems Research
  Thursday, October 8, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Colloquium

  Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley)
  The Algorithmic Lens: How the Computational Perspective is Transforming the Sciences
  Friday, October 9, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-125
  Special Colloquium

  Gaetano Borriello (UW CSE)
  Open Data Kit: Open Source Mobile Data Collection
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Colloquium

  Minoru Asada (Osaka University)
  Cognitive Developmental Robotics: An approach to understand ourselves and to design robots like us
  Thursday, October 15, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Special Colloquium

  Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm co-founder)
  From Cell Phones to Smart Phones to Smart Books - An Exciting Journey
  Thursday, October 15, 2009

  10:30 am, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
  Distinguished Lecturer Series and Dean Lytle Electrical Engineering Endowed Lecture

  Michael Hind (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
  The Impact of Multicore Architectures on Software: Disaster or Opportunity?
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Colloquium

  Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado)
  Chaos in Computer Performance
  Thursday, October 22, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Colloquium

  Ivan Sutherland (Portland State U, Sun Microsystems)
  TBD
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Colloquium

  Craig Mundie (Microsoft)
  Rethinking Computing
  Thursday, November 5, 2009

  3:30 pm, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
  Distinguished Lecturer Series

  Juan Gilbert (Clemson University)
  Incorporating Universal Design Principles in Electronic Voting
  Tuesday, November 10, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Colloquium

  Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University)
  Why are Graphics Systems so Fast?
  Thursday, December 3, 2009

  3:30 pm, EEB-105
  Distinguished Lecturer Series