Archive for 2006Page 3
Ron Graham to Lecture
Ronald L. Graham, arguably both the most accomplished living mathematician and the most charsimatic, will deliver two lectures at Gustavus this week, courtesy of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program. Graham will speak at 7:30 pm on Monday, May 1st, in Olin 103 and at 11:30 am on Tueday, May 2nd, in Olin 317. […]
Putnam Competition
Last December, Trevor Potter, Alex Zupan, Jonathan Dexter, Peter Overholsor, and Nhung Le spent six hours on a Saturday taking the Putnam. Alex and Nhung also participated in Christmas in Christ Chapel on the same day. Now the Putnam results are in. This year we had four out of five positive scores. There were 3454 […]
Job Opening for Multimedia Coder in Minneapolis
Pixel Farm Interactive, the interactive multimedia agency I work for downtown in the warehouse district of minneapolis is in the process of hiring a qualified Flash/javascript programmer. I thought I’d post the opening here for any ’06 or earlier grads to check out. There is a lot of growth in the web and cdrom industry […]
Zupan Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Gustavus math major Alex Zupan has been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Foundation was established and funded by the United States Congress to honor former Senator Barry M. Goldwater by providing financial encouragement to outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. […]
No Real Privacy Victory in Google Subpoena Case
Late yesterday afternoon, US District Judge James Ware denied the Department of Justice’s request to compel Google to turn over a sample of its users’ search queries. Privacy advocates have been quick to celebrate a victory. However, although there are several very enouraging signs, a close reading of the reasoning in the judge’s opinion shows […]
Visit a Math Major in the Business World
So maybe you don’t want to teach and don’t want to be an actuary or a computer geek. Is there some other way you can get paid for the general analytical abilities you are acquiring as a math or cs major? Yes! And now you have an opportunity to pay a visit to a Gustie […]
Photo of MCS Scene Wins Contest
Of over 150 entries in the Campus Community Photography Contest, “Let Epsilon Greater Than Zero Be Given” by Maggie Sagstuen was the overall winner as well as taking first place in the “Living and Learning” catgegory. The model is MCS major Mitch Engel. To see the photo in context of other winners and finalists, see […]
MCS Alumni Sweep First Decade Awards
As happens each year, the Gustavus Alumni Association is recognizing two members of the graduating class ten years ago (the class of 1996, in this case) with the “First Decade Award” for the significance of their accomplishments within their first decade since graduation. This year, something a bit unusual happened: both award recipients majored in […]
IdiotKin’s New CD
I always like to hear what our alumni are up to, so of course I was thrilled to get a CD in the mail today from Luther Monson. He does have a day job where he puts his computer science education to use, but his real love is whacking the #%#@ out of drums in […]
Difference Engines out of Toys?
As you may or may not know, one of the first calculators (abacus excluded) was a giant gear-laden monstrosity conceived of computing pioneer Charles Babbage back in the early 1800’s. His “difference engine” used gears to calculate 7th order polynomials to 31 digits of accuracy. here are a few modern attempts at using his logic […]