Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2007
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Inspiring Innovation 1 This exhibit is suitable for: All Graphical Threaded Debugger IlliTurk - General Game Playing Agent ACM SIGSoft Modern programmers are faced with the problem of effectively controlling multiple threads of execution. Our Graphical Thread Debugger (TDB) seeks to aid programmers by allowing them to visualize their application in execution the same way a film editor scrubs through a movie. Location: Atrium outside room 1304 This exhibit is suitable for: All Individual Programs like Deep Blue are capable of playing specific games at a world class level, but they can’t learn how to play other games. IlliTurk is capable of learning to play any turn-based game. Location: 1st Floor Hallway (between west entrance and room 1210) This exhibit is suitable for: All 1977 Electrical Engineering Professor and alumnus Nick Holonyak, Jr. (BS 1950, MS 1951, PhD 1954) invents the quantum well laser, making possible lasers for fiberoptic communications and the Internet, CDs, DVDs, medical diagnosis, surgery, ophthalmology, and many other applications. In 2006, Professor Holonyak was inducted into the Consumer Electronics (CE) Hall of Fame. JSTR Gravity Simulator Screensaver ACM A very cool screensaver that simulates the effects of gravity on a system of many particles with random initial configuration. Location: Atrium outside room 1214 This exhibit is suitable for: All Individual JavaScript development has traditionally been difficult because of the language’s powerful but confusing idioms and incompatibilities with browsers. JSTR provides a platform for JavaScript which shifts the developer’s focus from quirks to software engineering. Location: Atrium outside room 1302 This exhibit is suitable for: All Laptop Ensemble Grey Frame ACM Gamebuilders An inherently rhythmic sidescrolling fighting game, Grey Frame is an experimental video game which attempts to combine the skill based rhythmic genre such as Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution with the intense action of Side-scroller beat’em ups. Location: Atrium outside room 1214 This exhibit is suitable for: All UIUC Course We will give a short musical and video performance using networked laptop computers. Location: This exhibit is suitable for: All 1993 Computer Science students Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina work with an NCSA development team to create Mosaic, the first graphical browser to introduce the general public to the power of the Internet. Mosaic took the Internet out of the hands of physicists and into the hands of the public. Laptop Ensemble Student musical ensemble We will perform a set of original music in the Siebel Atrium, using the video wall if available; we will use both computers and traditional instruments. The audience is
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