I attended and thoroughly enjoyed this year's conference. I first attended last year, which was also great and informative. I may make some more notes on this page, but I want to "highlight" the presentations I attended for my own reference.
Footnotes
[1]
A. Star Trek, TOS
Spock: I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bear skins.
B. Star Trek, TNG variant
Barclay: Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core, utilizing neural-scan interface.
Enterprise Computer: There is no such device on file.
Barclay: No problem. Here's how you build it.
[2] This included a video presentation about the Open High School of Utah. As far as I can tell, this is a high school with a "virtual campus" only. The faculty are endeavoring to create an online curriculum which will be open sourced as it is developed. They are using open source software tools whenever possible.
[3] This presentation centered around a real time demo of using many machines to solve "embarrassingly" parallel problems. The demo used about 5 networked computers with dual processor cores to queue up and re-encode wav files to ogg files. This tool allows creating "on the fly" compute clusters without going to a more formal solution, such as a Beowulf cluster design. Another tool for managing multiple systems was described, dancer's shell.
[4] Amazon S3 offers "storage in the cloud" at very reasonable rates.
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