We welcomed another new member this week: Jico Baligod. Jico’s only been programming for a short amount of time, and has been able to produce things that surpass some of the other students in the program. Jico’s introductory presentation was a brief overview of jQuery, as well as a personal introduction to the group. Jico […]

Demetrios gave an extensive talk about the uses of cluster computing, including three live demonstrations. The beginning of the meeting was an overview of the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) project. Demetrios went over the advantages and disadvantages of BCCD. It’s a way of creating a cluster of computers without needing to make the setup permanent. […]

Doug Taggart presented an introduction to the MIPS assembly language, as well as a general overview of coding in assembly. Assembly language is used to control microprocessors and micro-controllers, among other things. It has the smallest amount of abstraction from machine code, and it is quite easy to translate lines of assembly code into binary […]

Andrew Hofstetter is a student worker for the technology department at Stockton and was able to provide the group with an extensive tour of Alton Auditorium.

Stan Schwertly presented an introduction to the R programming language this week. R is used in statistics and mathematical applications, and can be useful for a variety of problems. The discussion reviewed reading in a comma-separated values file and interpreting the data with R. Input/Output into different file formats were covered, including exporting a graph […]