Talk Description: This presentation aims to re-situate multisensory augmented reality as an artistic medium for the creation of interactive and expressive works by computational artists. If an AR system can be thought of as one that combines real and virtual processes, is interactive in real-time, and is registered in three dimensions; why do we witness the majority of AR applications utilising primarily visual displays of information? Addressing this question, in this work I aim to foster a playful and creative way about thinking and interacting with augmented reality in order to realise the artistic potential of these new and exciting technologies 
Speaker Bio: Sam Bilbow is a UK-based creative coder and 2nd year PhD student, exploring computational art and multisensory augmented / mixed reality technologies. He completed his undergraduate in Music Technology in 2015 with First Class Honours, specialising in hardware hacking and instrument design. He then went on to complete his MA in Music and Sonic Media in 2019 with Distinction, further specialising in augmented reality and spatial audio composition / design. Sam is a recipient of The Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme at Sussex University titled “From Sensation to Perception &amp; Awareness” for his PhD project: “Impact on human perception and expression, using augmented-reality technology as a medium for installation art.” Sams Website: <a href="https://sambilbow.com/">https://sambilbow.com/</a>

Tech Talk: Developing audiovisual AR experience with Project North Star

Talk Description: A general conversation about the state of Blockchain technologies and how it impacts the future of payment and commerce. What are the general challenges and how is the technology evolving to address these challenges?
Speaker Bio: Arjuna Chala is Sr. Director of Operations, HPCC Systems® and Special Projects at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions (LNRS). With almost 20 years of experience in software design, Arjuna leads the development and delivery of next generation big data capabilities including creating tools around exploratory data analysis, machine learning, IoT, cloud services integration and data intelligence. Arjuna is passionate about using Big Data technology innovation to bring measurable advancements to the industries that LNRS serves.
Dedicated to development excellence, Arjuna served as a key member of the team to bring the HPCC Systems platform to the open-source community. In his work with HPCC Systems community leaders and system integrator partners, Arjuna’s efforts have contributed to the spread of HPCC Systems technology into the enterprise domestically as well as the international markets of China, Brazil, Europe and India. Arjuna has a BS in Computer Science from RVCE, Bangalore University.

Tech Talk: Blockchain, Crypto and Managing Risks

Talk Description: In this workshop, we will explore how games use virtual sensation (a.k.a Game Feel) to provide better game experiences and we will analyze ways of implementing these techniques using Unity.
Speaker Bio: Brazilian Game Designer &amp; Developer / Creator of Mix and Jam and Content Developer at Unity Technologies

Tech Talk: The Importance of Game Feel

Talk Description:
Speaker Bio: Tyler Menezes is the Executive Director at <a href="https://www.codeday.org/">CodeDay,</a> where he works to provide welcoming and diverse opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech and beyond.Born in Canada but raised in the Pacific Northwest, he briefly attended the University of Washington before dropping out to start a Y Combinator and venture-backed social video startup in 2011. This, combined with stints working in machine learning at Microsoft Research and as a programmer at several Seattle startups, led to his work finding data-driven solutions to increasing CS diversity and enrollment since 2014.In his free time produces the public speaking event Ignite Seattle and helps with some tech projects supporting the band Wintergatan&#39;s Marble Machine project.You can learn more about Tyler on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Menezes">the mostly-accurate Wikipedia page</a> or follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/tylermenezes">Twitter.</a>

Tech Talk: An Introduction to Writing and Deploying Software in the Cloud 

Talk Description: A Q/A session structured around resume building and interview skills from an industry professional who has many years of experience in resume building and interviewing
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Speaker Bio:** “What you do today defines what you will be tomorrow” has been the driving force for Gurjot. After completing her Bachelors, she worked in the banking sector for about 5 years. Though it was a short tenure, her extraordinary abilities of technical delivery and intellect fetched her a “Star Performer Award”.Gurjot always had the zeal and desire to learn, grow and excel in not just her domain of work, but in a broader spectrum of the IT landscape. Following her dreams and ambition, she went ahead and pursued her Masters’ degree in Computer Science. This was one of her crucial career milestones that marked the beginning of her scintillating IT Career in the US.Post her graduation, she embarked on her first full time engagement with a startup – ‘MTS’ as a Database developer. She was a lone warrior in her firm wherein even without the required guidance or path-setting from a mentor, she strived and set her own growth path, envisioning where she wants to be after a decade. The MTS leadership appreciated her for expert handling and delivery of a critical and time-sensitive project that went on to generate notable revenue and credibility for the firm. In simple words, she is one of her kind who make their own fortune by endless commitment, hard work, persistence to succeed, and most importantly, a never-give-up attitude.As the next step of advancement, she took up a golden opportunity and teamed up with DataSeers, where she is getting to work with esteemed masterminds such as Mr. Joshi (Adwait)At DataSeers, she has continuously been shifting gears and working in multiple capacities, contributing immensely towards the firm’s initiatives and engagements. She absorbed the learning curve in a short span and making strides being a big data developer in ECL and gaining momentum on HPCC Systems platform.With the pace of learning and grasping abilities that she showcased since the start of her professional career, she has today worked her way up to the ability of managing projects and teams and successful in-time delivery. She received notes of appreciation from her clients that stand as milestones to her impeccable work ethic.Learning is a never-ending process in life. She respects it and aims to continue learning and acquiring further more capabilities, credentials, valuable technology knowledge, and ultimately, the wisdom to life a complete life. Knowledge is power!
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AMA: Resumes and Interview Skills from an Industry Professional

Talk Description: Through this one hour short course on computer architecture, you will learn about one example of a computer architecture based on an Intel multi-core multi-processor system. This architecture while show the connection of the processor other processors, to system DRAM memory and peripherals such as a Graphics device, NVMe storage, Network, USB etc. The primary interconnect to high performance peripherals is via the PCI Express serial bus. Next generation processors will include in addition to PCI Express ports, Compute Express Link (CXL) ports allowing the processor to connect to SmartIO and Accelerator devices as well as memory expanders. CXL interconnect allows the support of devices that include a cache. Caches drastically improve memory access performance. Hence, not only processors experience high system memory access performance, but now smart devices which include caches will experience this high memory access performance.
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Speaker Bio:** **Ravi Budruk is Vice President at MindShare, a technology training company. He has over 20 years of industry experience. Mr. Budruk has trained thousands of hardware and software engineers in various subjects of computer architecture. Mr. Budruk is an industry expert on topics such as Intel x86 Processor Architecture, bus architectures such as Intel QuickPath Interconnect, HyperTransport, Compute Express Link (CXL), PCI Express / PCI / PCI-X, IEEE 1394, ISA, PC system architecture, CXL and a variety of memory (DDRx) technologies. He is an excellent presenter and a dynamic speaker who brings industry acquired experience to the class. Ravi Budruk is author of the ‘PCI Express System Architecture’ textbook as well as the MindShare course. He is a PCI Express technology expert. He has provided technical support to the PCISIG and presented at PCISIG conferences numerous times. Mr. Budruk also provides legal counsel on the subject. Before joining MindShare, Inc., Mr. Budruk was a Intel processor-based chipset design engineer, system architect and manager at VLSI Technology, Inc.
Mr. Budruk has an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a BS degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.
Email: <a href="mailto:ravi@mindshare.com">ravi@mindshare.com</a>
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Tech Talk: Current and next generation computer architecture

Talk Description: Increase your market worth by becoming a value-driven engineer
Companies do not hire people to fill in a position; companies hire people to generate more value for their customers, so customers pay them in return.
To be successful means to become obsessed with producing value, so the company has an essential return on their investment in you.
In this presentation, we will look into the 5 habits of value-driven engineers and how you can develop them.
Speaker Bio: Cristina Elena Nistor is a Romanian Computer Science graduate who started her career in IT in Mexico 17 years ago.Cristina always loved to travel but as a young graduate she was broke so when she got this internship at this Mexican company, her dream came true, she could travel the other side of the world while working to finance her adventures.
She became a digital nomad.
All the while Cristina has been working on developing her professional career and now she is the Director of Operations at TESTCo, a company that does software testing.
This role allowed her to implement a home office environment where everyone could live the life they love, either spending more time with their families or traveling around the world.
Furthermore, she founded Management Talks, a management mentoring program aimed at helping first-time managers improve their management skills.

Career Talk: Don’t be irreplaceable, be invaluable!

Talk Description: Preparing for the behavioral interview, asking good questions, and presenting yourself in the best light to find a good fit!
Speaker Bio: Katerina Hanson is a Sr. Engineering Manager at States Title with 3+ years as a hiring manager, and over 8 years interviewing. She&#39;s passionate about mentoring and helping others find roles at excellent companies.

Career Talk: Decoding the Behavioral Interview

Talk Description: Data Visualization, aka &quot;dataviz&quot;, is much more than drawing some pretty charts; it&#39;s a process of discovering &amp; communicating insights derived from data. As software developers, we are luckily swimming in data about the apps we build, the users who interact with them, and the development workflows we use to build them. We may be used to looking at certain limited visualizations of that data - e.g. a simple line graph or bar chart presented by our analytics platform - but many developers don&#39;t realize that with very little time &amp; effort, we can build our own visualizations to dig deeper and answer the specific questions that really matter to us and our work.In this workshop, through a hands-on project we&#39;ll learn how to use Observable (<a href="https://observablehq.com">https://observablehq.com</a>), a browser-based reactive coding platform, to rapidly build insightful, interactive visualizations in JavaScript. After completing this workshop, you&#39;ll have the basic tools &amp; techniques you need to start using dataviz to better understand your code, your projects &amp; your users, and make better data-driven decisions as a developer.
Speaker Bio: Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer advocate at Observable, these days she codes &amp; teaches from her home base in San Francisco; in the before-times, you could find her speaking at events around the world. She loves to share the joy of programming and advocate for a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center &amp; Outreachy, she’s an alumna of both!

Tech Talk: Data Visualization for Developers [Hands-On]

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Not exactly happy with how it came out, but 2nd draft of the Alchemist Doctor set, designed to help with the alchemical transmutation plague

its not much buts its ~~honest work~~ funny

I added the ability to play in the settings like a piano because why not. I also added a progress bar and improved audio on misses to sustain for however long you hold it instead of always being a constant duration.
https://uwuhero.github.io/

Just added stars in the menu based on score

Did some cool camera work, got an amazing picture of a robin nest with my phone

My fiancee and I took ring-making classes this morning. Bottom is the ring I made

The font size is wrong and the text didn't wrap and somehow this dialog box came out perfectly.

Character option 1:
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completed section map, now time for a material set

Added new slots to the HUD, will reveal what they are for tomorrow (or today, idk yet)

By the way, one of the main reasons I made a rhythm game is so I can do this:

HUD update, I will now begin working on levels after this

Why are behind-planet-looking-at-sun shots always cool

weapon switching with the full arsenal is now fully functional! 🥳

Finally, it shows music stuff (but doesn't make noise yet)

autoswitch demonstration (look at the ammo)

Gun Axe! Also I accidentally recorded part of a discord convo, sorry 😬

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How the player is able to see the battle
According to the Intersystem War Treaty of 2152, People are not allowed to destroy A.T.O.M.s, however, they can disuade their presence with some force

I made my asteroid texture with just a few layers of perlin noise and some color:

just finished the slides for my workshop later 👀 <:inkscape:819319655796834327>

As much as I love drawing breakfast burritos, I think I'll get back to programming since this is taking a long time...

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