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Office of Educational Innovation and Technology

Getting Your Feet Wet With WordPress
Molly Ruggles
Wed Jan 18, 12-01:00pm, 26-139

Single session event

Have you wanted to explore WordPress but not sure where to begin? Do you think that your lack of skills in html, css and javascript prevents you from creating your own website or blog? Do you secretly want to post your nuggets of wisdom to the world, but not sure where to start? This session is for you.

In this one hour session, you'll get up and running with WordPress, with a basic understanding of themes, widgets, plugins and other fundamental features of one of the best blogging platforms on the planet.

Please note: this is a reschedule of the original Jan 11th session which was cancelled due to registration confusion. Our apologies to anyone who showed up expecting a class.
Open to MIT staff and students. You need to have an MIT kerberos ID (ie an @mit.edu email account) in order to participate.

Attendance: Open to MIT staff and students. You need to have an MIT kerberos ID (ie an @mit.edu email account) in order to participate.

PreReqs: none
Contact: Molly Ruggles, NE 48-308, (617) 324-9185, ruggles@mit.edu

Guerilla Photoshop
Molly Rugges
Wed Jan 25, 12-01:15pm, 26-139

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Prereq: basic familiarity with Photoshop

Neither for the faint of heart nor the professional designer, this un-session is for anyone who flies by the seat of their pants, muddling through PS and sometimes stumbling on a particularly elegant use of the magic wand, or some easy way to animate layers.

If your struggles with PS have yielded a particularly neat trick or quick fix please come prepared take the floor and share it with the group at this informal, interactive un-session.
Contact: Molly Rugges, NE38-308, 324-9285, ruggles@mit.edu

Kinected Experiences: Workshops and Competition
Brandon Muramatsu, Edwin Guarin
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2012
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Kinect + Windows Phone + Windows 8 development via C# and HTML5. What else can you ask for?

Participate in one or more workshops to prepare yourselves for an IAP competition that challenges you to combine your technical skills and creativity to create the next best product or app, potentially leading to a startup, or some great PR.

These workshops can also be used as a stepping stone towards a few larger competitions with a focus on socially responsible themes, including: iCampus Student Prize, IDEAS Global Challenge or the Imagine Cup.

Visit the website to register for a workshop.
Web: http://icampusprize.mit.edu/iap/kinected-experiences/
Contact: Brandon Muramatsu, NE48-308, x3-1680, mura@mit.edu

Kinected Development: Kinect Xbox 360
Clint Rutkas, Brian Peek and Donald Brinkman
Learn how to develop and create applications using the official Kinect SDK. You will walk through features such as: Skeletal Viewer, Audio Capture, Speech. You will have some lab time to start building your own applications for the competition and get help as needed.

Session Instructors: Clint Rutkas (Channel 9), Brian Peek (Coding4Fun) and Donald Brinkman (Microsoft Research)
Tue Jan 17, 09am-05:00pm, 4-261 & 4-265

Kinected Development: Windows Phone
Edwin Guarin, Nora Micheva and Shawn Henry Microsoft
Learn how to get started on that next great app for the Phone using Silverlight and XNA. This is your chance to design and implement that cool new app you've been dreaming about, or put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, so bring your idea for a Phone App and get ready to code. Phone devices provided for testing.

Session Instructors: Edwin Guarin, Nora Micheva (Windows Phone, MIT ’11), Shawn Henry (Windows Phone)
Wed Jan 18, 09am-05:00pm, 4-159

Kinected Development: Windows 8
Chris Bowen and George Matthews Microsoft
You will be able to install and learn how to write applications (HTML5 and C#) for the Windows 8 Developer Preview.

Session Instructors: Chris Bowen (Principal Developer Evangelist) and George Matthews (SDET)
Thu Jan 19, 09am-05:00pm, 4-159

The MathWorks Sessions
Jim Cain
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2012
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: Prior MATLAB helpful

Learn more about how you can use MathWorks products as a flexible environment for technical computing and application development in engineering, math, and science curricula and research. Attend as many sessions as you wish.

Also cosponsored by The Student Information Processing Board.

For detailed information about the sessions and presenters, go to url below.
Web: http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap12/
Contact: Lauren Tabolinsky, lauren.tabolinsky@mathworks.com
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Parallel Computing with MATLAB
Sarah Zaranek PhD and Jiro Doke, PhD, The Mathworks
Overcome the memory limits of your desktop computer and solve problems that require manipulating very large matrices by distributing your data. Solve computationally and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and computer clusters.
Mon Jan 23, 10am-12:30pm, 4-163

Advanced Graphics and Visualization in MATLAB
Sumit Tandon, Application Engineering, The MathWorks
Visualizing multidimensional data, viewing images, and manipulating graphics in MATLAB, techniques for customizing graphical displays, creating animations, and creating publication-quality graphics. Loading, processing, and viewing large images and data and visualizing higher dimension data with advanced 3D objects in a virtual reality environment.
Mon Jan 23, 01:30-03:30pm, 4-163

Introduction to MATLAB: Problem Solving and Programming
Laura Proctor, Kye Taylor, Training Engineers The MathWorks
MATLAB essential for classes or research. You’ll learn how to write a MATLAB script and create a report in HTML or some other format. You’ll also learn how to write your own MATLAB functions, use flow control, and create loops.

By the end of the session, you’ll have learned to create an application in MATLAB.

Bring a laptop to this hands-on lab!
Tue Jan 24, 01-05:30pm, 4-163

Mathematical Modeling with MATLAB
Loren Shure, PhD, Principal MATLAB Developer, The MathWorks
Find out how you can use MATLAB and related products for your mathematical modeling tasks.

Highlights include:
Predicting responses using regression trees;
Creating models derived from first principles;
Identifying parameters that optimize system performance;
Simulating models and developing custom post-processing routines; and
Generating reports to document model derivation and simulation results.
Wed Jan 25, 10am-12:30pm, 4-163

How Basic Communication Theory Turns into a 4F Wireless Systems Model in MATLAB
Houman Zarrinkoub, PhD, Senior Product Manager, The MathWorks
Highlights include:
Modeling, simulation, and visualizing the performance of the communications system in MATLAB;
Using Communications System Toolbox™ to incorporate components such as modulators, channel models, convolutional and turbo encoder/decoder, MIMO, and OFDM into your model; System-level throughput analysis with adaptive modulation based on channel characteristics.
Wed Jan 25, 01:30-04:30pm, 4-163

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in MATLAB
Abhishek Gupta, Application Engineer, The MathWorks
Learn to define classes and work with objects and highlight the benefits of this programming approach over traditional procedural techniques. Features covered include class definitions, properties, property attributes, methods, method attributes, and inheritance.

No knowledge of object-oriented programming is required.
Thu Jan 26, 10am-12:00pm, 4-163

Computer Vision with MATLAB
Bruce Tannenbaum, Technical Marketing Manager The MathWorks
Computer vision uses images and video to detect, classify, and track objects or events in order to understand a real-world scene. New capabilities for computer vision R&D in Computer Vision System Toolbox™ and additional toolboxes, automatic image registration and stereo image rectification with feature-based methods and texture classification algorithms.

Some experience with MATLAB and Image Processing Toolbox assumed.
Thu Jan 26, 01:30-03:30pm, 4-163

Applied Curve Fitting with MATLAB
Richard Willey, Technical Marketing Manager, The MathWorks
This session focuses on functions and algorithms in Statistics Toolbox and Optimization Toolbox™:
Nonparametric regression in low- and high-dimensional spaces; Sequential feature selection; Cross validation; Regularization techniques including lasso and ridge regression; and Logistic regression.

The session assumes a basic working knowledge of MATLAB, but advanced knowledge of statistics is not required.
Fri Jan 27, 10am-12:00pm, 4-163


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