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Previous Lunch 'n Learn Sessions

2008-09

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

2004-05

Date

Title

Speaker(s)

Materials

2008-09 Series

5/6/09

Computer Modeling of the Mind and Brain

Matthew Botvinick

podcast, presentation

4/29/09

The Cairo Geniza: Ancient Papers in the Digital Age

Mark Cohen,
Ben Johnston

podcast, presentation

4/22/09

Archives and Manuscripts:
Library Finding Aids

Daniel Santamaria

podcast, presentation

4/15/09

Flash Forward: The Rise of Small Tech Gadgets

Doug Dixon

podcast

4/1/09

Embedded Microcomputers for Teaching

Michael G. Littman

podcast, presentation

3/25/09

Women in Research Computing

Betty Leydon,
Emily Carter,
Jennifer Rexford,
Olga Troyanskaya

podcast

3/11/09

Princeton's Broadcast Center: First Cuts

David Hopkins,
Lance Herrington

podcast, presentation

3/4/09

Foundations and Future of Information Search

Andrea LaPaugh

podcast, presentation

2/25/09

Creative Commons: Guilt-Free Reuse of Others' Work

Keith Gresham,
David Hollander

podcast, presentation

2/18/09

Infrared Optical Sensing for Health and the Environment

Claire Gmachl,
Jim Smith

podcast, presentation

2/11/09

The Princeton Election Consortium: A First Draft of Electoral History

Sam Wang

podcast, presentation

12/10/08

Computational Intractability: A Barrier for Computers, Man and Science

Sanjeev Arora

podcast, presentation

12/03/08

E-books: Princeton and Beyond

Adriana Popescu, Priscilla Treadwell

podcast, presentation

11/19/08

Technology in the Classroom: Training and Mentoring Teaching Assistants

Jamie Rankin

podcast

11/12/08

Google Earth and Sky

Bill Guthe

podcast, presentation

11/04/08

On Tour @ Lewis: the Broadcast & New Media Centers

Janet Temos
David Hopkins

 

10/22/08

High Performance Computing at Princeton

Anatoly Spitkovsky, Jeroen Tromp, Curt Hillegas

podcast

10/15/08

Cyber Security for Non-technical Users

Anthony Scaturro

podcast, presentation

10/01/08

On Tour @ Lewis: the Science Library

Patty Gaspari-Bridges

photo gallery

9/24/08

Launching PAD: the Princeton Applications Developers Group

Serge Goldstein

podcast, web site

9/17/08

Research Hacks: TIps & Tools for the Busy Scholar

Steven Adams

podcast

9/10/08

Blackboard: New Features Make the Grade

Dennis Hood

 

2007-08 Series

5/7/08

The Google Book Scanning Project

Trevor Dawes,
Marie Wange-Connelly

podcast

4/30/08

Tuning In or Tuning Out: The New World of Digital TV

David Hopkins

podcast, presentation

4/23/08

The Joys and Ploys of Little Toys

Douglas Dixon

podcast

4/16/08

Emerging Tools for Research and Instruction

Ira Fuchs

podcast

4/09/08

Collaboration Tools at Princeton

Mark Ratliff, Dennis Hood, Harris Otubu, Sal Rosario

podcast, presentation

4/02/08

The Sporting Edge: IT Tools for Winning Soccer

Julie C. Shackford, Scott Champ

podcast

3/26/08

Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS

Emmanuel Kreike

podcast, presentation

3/12/08

The Greening of Technology: Sustainability Initiatives at Princeton

Shana Weber, Leila Shahbender, Charles Kruger, Curt Hillegas, John Shorey

podcast, presentation

3/05/08

History, Remote Sensing and GIS: The AvKat Survey Project

John F. Haldon

podcast, presentation

2/27/08

Digitizing the Universe From Your Backyard

Robert J. Vanderbei

podcast, presentation

2/13/08

The Changing Face of Programming

Brian Kernighan

podcast, presentation

1/9/08

Google Search Strategies

Nancy Pressman Levy

podcast, presentation

12/12/07

Why Your Humble iPod Might
Be Holding the Biggest Mystery
in All of Science

Bernard Chazelle

podcast, presentation

12/5/07

Computers Driving Down Nassau Street

Alain Kornhauser and PAVE students

podcast, presentation

11/14/07

Tivo for the Internet: RSS Feeds for Research and Leisure

Steven Adams

podcast, web page

11/7/07

Research Computing: Princeton Perspectives

Curt Hillegas, Frans Pretorius, Dan Marlow, Roberto Car

podcast, Pretorius pdf, Marlow pdf, Car pdf

10/24/07

Securing the Electronic Ballot

Alex Halderman

podcast (First half hour), presentation

10/17/07

Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior

Ken Steiglitz

podcast, presentation, vodcast

10/10/07

Podcasting: Why and How

David Hopkins

podcast, presentation

9/26/07

The Turing Machine in the Voting Booth

Andrew Appel

podcast

9/19/07

Blackboard: All the Tools, All the Time

Matthew Hood

 

2006-07 Series

5/2/07

Introduction to Office 2007

Jeanne Mrak

podcast

4/22/07

Video on Demand at Princeton

Marianne Crusius, Daniela Antonuci, Larry Danson, Yukari Tokumasu

 

4/11/07

Digital Photography Roundtable

Denise Applewhite, Douglas Dixon, David Hopkins, Lorene Lavora

Cameras, Technique, Management, podcast

4/4/07

A Second Life for the University: Immersive Reality in Teaching

Janet Temos

presentation

3/28/07

Geometry and Music

Dmitri Tymoczko

podcast

3/14/07

New Frontiers in Nanotechnology

Winston "Wole" Soboyejo

presentation, podcast

3/7/07

Campus Networking and the Internet: How They Work

Peter Olenick

presentation, podcast

2/28/07

GIS at Princeton: Gathering Knowledge From Satellite Images

Bill Guthe, David Potere, Bethany Bradley, Wangyal Shawa

Intro ppt, Portere ppt, Bradley ppt, podcast

2/21/07

All the News That Fits: Newspaper Resources at Princeton

Bobray Bordelon, Elizabeth Bennett

podcast

2/14/07

Modeling for Drawing

Adam Finkelstein

presentation, podcast

2/7/07

Clickers In the Classroom

Janet Temos, Joshua Rabinowitz

podcast

1/17/07

Bibliographic Management: No Longer a Chore

Audrey Betsy Wright

presentation

1/10/07

All Things Google

Wayne Bivens-Tatum, John Hernandez

 

12/13/07

Video Vivations: Constructing a Documentary in Real Time

David Hopkins

 

12/6/06

Teaching with a Tablet PC

Serge Goldstein

presentation, podcast

11/29/06

Content Protection and Digital Rights Management: Accessing Your Media in the Digital Home

Douglas Dixon

presentation, podcast

11/15/06

PlanetLab: An Open Platform for Developing, Deploying and Accessing Planetary-scale Services

Larry Peterson

podcast

11/8/06

Electronic Grantsmanship

Michelle Christy, Joseph Broderick

presentation, podcast, handout

10/25/06

When Worlds Collide: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson in the Era of eBay

Kevin Guthrie

presentation, podcast

10/11/06

High Performance Computing: the Princeton Experience

Curt Hillegas, Mikko Haataja, James Stone, Bill Tang

podcast

9/20/06

Teaching with Blackboard: It Keeps Getting Better

Dennis Hood

 

2005-06 Series

5/17/06

What's Up With Google: The View From the Library

Elana Broch, Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Stephen Ferguson, Jennifer Lang

search presentation, cataloging presentation, podcast

5/3/06

Virtual Scholarship

Nancy Pressman, Audrey Wright,Phil Menos

presentation

4/19/06

The University Channel

Donna Liu

podcast

4/12/06

Teaching in Bytes II: Using Technology in the Classroom

Janet Temos & Faculty

social software presentation, why blog presentation

4/5/06

Visualizing Spatial Information in the Classroom

Bill Guthe, James Smith, Eric Wood, Wangyal Shawa

library presentation, hydrology presentation

3/29/06

Automated Radio Tracking of Rainforest Animals: A Pilot System for a Proposed National Observatory Network

Martin Wilkelski, Roland Keys, Axel Haenssen, Christian Ziegler

 

3/16/06

Portable Media: Fun Players and Phones

Douglas Dixon

presentation

3/8/06

Scientific Computational Clusters at PPPL: Lessons Learned

Paul Henderson

presentation

3/1/06

Sex, Lies and Videogames: The Truth About Females and Computing

Maria Klawe

presentation

2/22/06

Millions, Billions, Zillions: Why Innumeracy Matters

Brian Kernighan

presentation

2/15/06

AP501: A (More Productive) Day in the Academic Life

Christopher Mackie

 

2/8/06

Beyond Course Management: Blackboard as a Learning Tool

Dennis Hood, Lee Mitchell, Laurel Goodell, Keiko Kuriyama, Antonio Calvo, Lee Silver, Ana Figueroa, Rena Lederman

 

1/4/06

20 Years of Academic Computing: What Have We Learned?

Michael Mahoney

 

12/14/05

Better Than Google, Part II: The Library's PUL QuickSearch

Nancy Pressman

 

12/7/05

Using BLOG Technology to Enhance Student Writing

Kate Stanton, Kay Chubbuck

 

11/30/05

The Machine in the Garden: Temptation and Liability for Students in the Age of File Sharing

Clayton Marsh

 

11/16

Teaching in Bytes: Using Technology in the Classroom

Janet Temos

 

11/2/05

High Performance Computing at Princeton and Around the World

Curt Hillegas

 

10/26/05

Are Higher Education and Open Source Ready for Each Other?

Ira Fuchs - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

presentation

10/19/05

Tech Tools for Academic Writers: RefWorks and EndNote

Audrey Betsy Wright

 

10/12/05

Internet2 and Next Generation Network Applications in Higher Education

George Laskaris - NJEdge

presentation

9/21/05

Blackboard 2005: What's New for Instructors?

Dennis Hood

 

2004-05 Series

4/20/05

Chess: Modern Tools for the Royal Game

Jon Edwards

presentation

4/13/05

What’s New on Macs?

   

4/6/05

Discovering Data with CPANDA: Powerful Statistics, Easy Interface

Larry McGill

 

3/30/05

An Introduction to the Tablet PC

Serge Goldstein

presentation

3/9/05

Redefining the Photograph in the Digital Era

Andrew Moore

 

3/2/05

A Quick Tour of Geographic Information Systems

Bill Guthe

 

2/16/05

Eleven Cool Things You can do with PHP

David Sklar

presentation

2/9/05

@princeton.edu: Improved Services Put SPAM in the Can

Donna Tatro, Chris Kranz

 

2/2/05

Create and Edit Your Own Video Extravaganza - Take 2

David Hopkins

presentation

1/26/05

From Supercomputer to the OIT Beowulf Cluster

Curt Hillegas

presentation

1/19/05

Open Source Software: The Good, the Bad and the Costly

Serge Goldstein

presentation

1/5/05

The New Data Warehouse

Ted Bross

presentation

12/15/04

Our New Web Content Management System

Reed Meister

presentation

11/17/04

Discussion of Digital Image Resources and Projects at Princeton

Janet Temos
Jeff Evans
Janet Strohl-Morgan

 

11/10/04

Technology in Language Teaching

Jamie Rankin

 

10/27/04

Electronic Election Systems: E-voting Security and Paper Trails

Michelle Mulder

 

10/20/04

Better Than Google: Find Articles and More At The Library

Nancy Pressman Levy

 

10/13/04

A Computer Deconstructed

Adam Re, Todd Klingaman

presentation

10/6/04

Blogs, Weblogs, Powerful Web Journals

Kati Lovasz

presentation

9/29/04

Create and Edit Your Own Video Extravaganza

David Hopkins

presentation

9/22/04

Blackboard Content System and New Blackboard Features

Dennis Hood, Matt Hood

presentation

9/15/04

SPAM - Everyone Talks About It But OIT Is Doing Something About It

Dan Oberst

presentation