Come to the first IEEE general meeting for fall 2007! Meet the executive board, hear about events we have planned, and suggest some of your own. We'd love to see both old friends and new faces.

In addition, come hear BU IEEE alum and current Avid employee George F. Matthews talk about Unity ISIS's self-healing and distributed high-performance filesystem. "Avid rolled their own filesystem because standard RAID configurations out there can't deal with the high-bandwidth demands of HD media (1080/24p sucks bandwidth like there's no tomorrow). So, there's redistribution algorithms, file and block rectification and a lot of wicked cool stuff in there that is really interesting. Unity is the technological force behind Heroes, the UFC, almost every news broadcast, and most play-to-air solutions used by the TV networks.George will be taking resumés, so bring yours if you think you'd be interested working with things like Unity and video processing.

Jim's talk will include an overview of his work in the Microsoft Common Language Runtime, ranging from content underclassmen will be able to appreciate up to 300-400-graduate level material.

Rumor has it that this guy is a pretty big deal, and a great speaker.

We're going to try to have exciting news for November, as well as discuss having more frequent (tech-talk-less) meetings.

Our Technical Speaker: Pete Dempsey from FastSearch. "Pete Dempsey. International Man of Mystery. Coder Extraodinaire. He can hack the panties off any lady in 2 seconds flat. He is the compiler of dreams."
- Tito Rodi, Approved by Peter Dempsey Peter will be speaking about the complexity of search in unstructured environments. Included will be an overview of strategies to break down natural language search into subproblems that are much easier to tackle algorithmically. This one looks great for all of you computational linguists and CSE's out there, but in case that's not exactly your cup of tea, we've persuaded Peter to include some hardware-side stuff as well.

This Month, FAST is picking up the pizza tab beforehand. <applause>

Come learn about essential tools and techniques for soldering bare wires, through-hole components, and surface mount devices. Soldering irons and tools will be provided, as well as a small kit to practice on. We'll be awarding prizes for... well, we haven't really decided on criteria, but there will be prizes none the less!

This tutorial is highly recommended for people of all soldering skill levels. EE's take notice: Your Sr. Design group will most likely make you do the soldering. Learn how to do it now, even if you're a freshman.

There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board across from PHO 105. There is room 12 people to solder per 2-hour session; we will open up more sessions if the demand is high enough.