Mon, Mar 12, 2007
March 12, 2007
MARCH 12-16
UNL Coders to Compete Against Top Computer Programmers in Tokyo
A team of computer programmers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will complete a semester's worth of work in one afternoon at the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest next month in Tokyo. Travis Meinders (Pleasant Hill, Iowa), Yuliy Pisetsky (Omaha, Neb.) and Derrick Stolee (Perham, Minn.) will represent UNL as they challenge some of the world's brightest students.
More than 6,000 teams representing 1,756 universities participated in regional ACM-ICPC competitions last fall. The top 88 teams will compete in Tokyo March 12-16. The contest gives computer programmers the chance to hone their problem-solving skills and mental endurance by solving eight or more highly complex real-world problems under a grueling five-hour deadline. more...
JD EDWARDS PROGRAM
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Rangeland grasshoppers, economics, and current trends"
Mathew Brust, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology
UNL'S IMPACT ON NEBRASKA
J.D. Edwards Grads Forge New Business
At age 24, Colby Thomson has an MBA and is the co-owner of his own business. Allied Strategy, a software company created by Thomson and other J.D. Edwards Honors Program students, has nine J.D. Edwards students working in its studio/office in downtown Lincoln.
Businessweek says the fledgling company is the top non-university hirer of MBA graduates in Nebraska.
Allied Strategy creates verification solutions for the insurance industry that comply reports and assure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other reporting standards. The business idea emerged from Thomson's J.D. Edwards Honors Program Design Studio project. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
God Grew Tired Of Us, The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents God Grew Tired Of Us and The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films. All films will show through March 15.
God Grew Tired Of Us tells the remarkable story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 1987, with explosive violence in the Sudan because of civil war, 25,000 young boys between the ages of three and thirteen fled from their homes, beginning a five-year trek that ultimately led the survivors--many of the boys died along the treacherous journey through the desert--to a United Nations refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Nicknamed the Lost Boys after the characters in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, they formed a tight community in the camp, though they still had little food and shelter and a bleak future. In 2001, 38,000 of the boys, now grown into men, were selected to be relocated to the United States, where they were to be given a new lease on life. Writer-director Christopher Quinn and co-director Tommy Walker closely follow three of the men as they try to make a go of it in what for them is a whole new world--they never before had flown in an airplane, shopped in a supermarket, or turned on an electric light. Narrated by Nicole Kidman, and with Brad Pitt serving as one of the executive producers, God Grew Tired Of Us is a powerful, compelling, important documentary.
Every year our patrons ask where they can see the Oscar nominees in the short film categories. This year, just like last year, there's an answer: at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The capsule reviews are provided by the films distributors. Note: Each of these three programs will screen separately and a separate admission will be required.
More information is available at the Ross website.
