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October 1, 2003Time to order SC2003 exhibitor badges Campus Charitable Fund Drive begins Faculty Fellows schedule updated RiverWeb featured in Chronicle D2K part of technology showcase Outstanding undergraduates to be honored data link to be released Friday
Time to order SC2003 exhibitor badges Campus Charitable Fund Drive begins In the upcoming days, you will receive a mailbox stuffer with all of the information you need to complete your pledge for this year's drive. It is important, however, that you read the pledge card carefully and complete all necessary forms/sections for the charity of your choice, as some of the choices and ways to donate have changed. Donations and pledges will be taken up to Nov. 14. As always, you may even elect to have the pledge taken directly from your paycheck! If you have questions, please contact Jonathan Howell, 265-0618. The following NCSA employees have also volunteered to help collect donations in their respective buildings:
NCSA wishes to thank all who contribute for your support and assistance in this year's CCFD; your donation does make a difference in so many ways. Introducing Egg and Malti The Egg is C++ application infrastructure. Malti, which is built on Egg, is a multi-channel media processing and transport framework. Virtual Director 2, an animation package also built on Egg and utilizing Malti, will be briefly discussed in the context of Egg. The Egg library is a small framework originally created as a dynamic dependency graph tool for Virtual Director 2, an animation package. The purpose was to allow the application user to modify all aspects of an animation's "actors," including the ability to link some aspect of one actor to another, such as linking an object and a camera to produce a follow cam. Or you could link the color of an object to the loudness of the computer's sound input. The underlying Egg framework enables the programmer to create such objects and open up the parameters to the end-user. Egg also provides: command support with a plain-text interpreter, undo support, reference counted memory management, preliminary support for persistence, and primitive networking. The current development is geared toward finishing persistence, binding Egg to Python, and improving the API. Malti is a multi-layered communications infrastructure that has been chiefly utilized for its real-time multi-channel media processing and transport layers. The transport layer abstracts RTP, UDP and TCP transport mechanisms to simplify application integration. The application layer allows multi-channel real-time media processing applications to be built by linking together modules into graph structures (The application layer is similar to D2K in this respect). Malti was recently redesigned on top of the Egg library in order to benefit from the object-oriented infrastructure and enable better integration with Virtual Director efforts. Faculty Fellows schedule updated
RiverWeb featured in Chronicle D2K part of technology showcase i-emerging is produced by the Office of the Vice President for Technology and Economic Development. For more information on i-emerging, see http://www.vped.uillinois.edu/Events/iemerging.asp. For more info on D2K, go to http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Projects/AllProjects/Projects15.html. Outstanding undergraduates to be honored Nominees must attend a university or college in the United States or Canada and must be nominated by a department chair or faculty member. The deadline for this year's nominations is Oct. 20. More information is available at http://www.cra.org/. data link to be released Friday U of I tidbits There will be a panel discussion on current issues in natural land management from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Allerton Park Visitors Center. A Q&A session will follow the presentation. John Sinclair, a leading authority on and passionate proponent of the blues, will present a blues music performance of his epic work in verse, centering on the music of the Mississippi Delta. The performance is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8 in Room 62 of the Krannert Art Museum. At 5:30 p.m. Oct. 9 Sinclair will lead a colloquium on "Visualizing the Blues" in the Krannert Art Museum East Gallery. The colloquium offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the history of the South and of the blues, as well as the roles they have played in our national consciousness and culture. Open positions If you know people who are qualified to apply, please ask them to do so. The center will accept applications via hard copy, email, or fax. The application should include the search number (if one has been indicated), resume and 3 letters of reference. Unless otherwise noted, send resumes and direct questions to:
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