Students in the CSE Capstone projects class will be showing posters and prototypes of their projects in the Swearingen lobby from 10:00 to 12:00. There are 19 projects including, computer games, apps, a Turing machine, web applications and more … Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors: Please stop by and see what the Seniors have been working on. Talk with them about their projects, courses in the curriculum, and what you have to look forward to.

Jonathan Mayhak will be talking about messaging queues. Specifically, using the pubsub design pattern to decouple metric tracking code on the web server from the database. Jonathan graduated from this department and now works as an Application Developer at ReachSmart Interactive. This talk is part of CSCE 242 but is open to all students.

Brad Dunbar will talk about Backbone.js. Brad is an alumnus of our department. He is a front-end engineer. He currently works at Pathable Inc. writing javascript (and coffeescript) and I does a lot of open source work for Backbone and Underscore. This talk is part of CSCE 242 but is open to all students.

Jarrell Waggoner, will show us how to build an extension for the Chrome browser. Jarrell Waggoner is a PhD student in our department. He implemented the nonpartisan me which received some attention. This talk is part of CSCE 242 but is open to all students.

In this interactive walk-through, we will create a custom application from scratch using proven Microsoft tools and technologies and a healthy dose of new approaches to software development. This session will demonstrate how easy it can be to create rich single page applications and robust client experiences while still leveraging .NET languages and tools to define the bulk of the business logic and processes (not just a tangled mess of JavaScript). While this will be a high-level demonstration, it still show how to handle hard-core problems like symmetric client and server-side template rendering, complex custom validation and event-driven model manipulation using both client and server-side rules. Though the problems solved will be hard, the solutions demonstrated will be both elegant and easy to understand. This is an invited talk by Jamie Thomas. This talk is part of CSCE 242 but is open to all students. Jamie Thomas is the Director of Software Development at VC3, an IT and software services company, headquartered here in downtown Columbia, in the IT-ology building.

Appathon contestants will show off their submissions, free lunch and t-shirts will be provided, and prizes will be awarded! There will also be an introductory workshop in android development. So come out and get some free food, some sweet swag, and see the cool stuff your fellow students have created. See event details.

MS Thesis Defense: Gary Fredericks We study a family of network formation models to determine how payment rules affect the final network topologies that emerge. In our model a set of nodes starts out without any edges and the nodes must pay for the creation of edges using one of several different payment mechanisms, for example: one node pays for the whole edge, the cost is shared equally between the two nodes, etc. We show how the set of networks formed by some payment rules are subsets of those formed by other rules. We also perform extensive empirical tests on networks of up to 10 nodes. These tests reveal some interesting patterns in the connectivity, stability, and fairness of the networks generated by the various payment rules given a fixed link cost.