Hello eDreamers–

I would like to invite you to the final demonstration event for the game design course I have been teaching this semester (Info 403)! The students will be setting up their games (developed in teams over the whole semester) for anyone to play and you are welcome to come down to join in and talk to the students. Please feel free to extend this invitation to other interested individuals (the room should handle 20+ guests at a time and we will happily rotate the crowd if it gets full!).

Where: NCSA room #1040

Benjamin Smith, D.M.A.
Post Doc, eDream, Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technology Illinois Informatics Institute
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

BIG Data — What Are the Challenges Just What Is Possible?

Panel Moderator: Rob Pennington,
  NCSA Chief Technology Officer
Christopher McConnell,
  GE Global Research
Mike Freemon,
  NCSA Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
Marie Kostecki,
  Mayo Clinic
Mike Folk,
  President, The HDF Group
Todd Tomashek,
  NCSA Dark Energy Survey
Donna Cox,
  Director, NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab

NCSA and the eDREAM Institute present what may be your last chance to see Terrence Malick's award-winning film "The Tree of Life" on a giant cinema screen. The cinematographic masterpiece includes scenes created by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, a team based here in Champaign-Urbana at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

The event will include a talk by the visualization team and a Q&A. The event was created by Tugg, a company that works with theaters to show films as long as a minimum audience size can be reached. ,/p>

Reserve your ticket through the Tugg website as soon as possible to ensure the event can happen!
http://tugg.com/events/512