Spring 2006 Speakers

Date Speaker Topic
1/13 John Carter Course overview
1/20 Mark Terrano, Microsoft
(Xbox Adv Tech Group)
Realities of Working in the Game Industry
1/27 Chris Bailey, Adobe
Darin Krauss, Adobe
What You Always Wanted to Know About Being a Software Engineer But Never Asked
2/3 Troy Takach, DesignJug
Jean Takach, DesignJug
Rules for Engineering Success
2/10 David Bean, CTO of Attensity Attensity: Bleeding Edge AI in Salt Lake City? You bet! (or)
Why Starting a Company Before You're Done With Your Degree is a Colossally Bad Idea
2/17 Dan Allen, Microsoft/Apple (retired) Apple vs Microsoft
2/24 John Regehr Why (or why not) go to Grad School?
3/3 John Ogilvie, Ogilvie Law Firm A Primer on Intellectual Property Law
3/10 No class ---
3/17 Spring Break ---
3/24 Kamran Elahian, co-Founder of Global Catalyst Partners Beyond Entrepreneurship (Meets in EMCB 104)
3/31 Jay Miya, Rhythm & Hues So You Want to Work in CG Visual Effects - A Rhythm & Hues Perspective
4/7 Kiri Wagstaff, NASA JPL When Crashes are Deadly: Coding for Spacecraft
4/14 Brett Error, CTO of Omniture Building Enterprise Class Products with Open Source Software
4/21 Jim Nusbaum, Prediction Company (subsidiary of UBS AG) Business Oriented Development: The case for NOT working for a software company!