UD ACM Minutes for 9/25/2007

ACM with Guest Quantum Leap

Officers present (at least for a little while): Chip, Mike, Steve, Paul, Ben

Professors present: Dr. Conrad, Dr. Saunders

Steve introduced Quantum Leap (QL) as a whole at 8:05pm.

Joseph Elad (CEO) gave overview of QL

• Touched on some fields of technology and business implemented by QL
• Went over flow chart of QL areas of research and development
• Brought up idea of touring QL because it is so radical

Dave Cleaver spoke about future combat systems

• Situational awareness
• Pro-active decision support
• Intelligent sensor platform
• Demonstrator features
• Hermes: Agent-oriented Surface-oriented Architecture
• Showed demo videos of map interactions with enemies, etc.

Joseph Elad concluded the QL talk by touching on the fact that QL is not out to kill people and is in fact using its technologies for good things other than war.

Food at 8:55pm. Yum.

UD ACM Minutes for 9/11/2007

• The meeting got started around 7:35pm
• Officers Present:
• Paul Fenlon
  
• Andrew Chepurney
  
• Stephen Mahoney
  
• Michael Shertok
  
• Ben Karel
  
• 12 Students in attendance (including officers)
• 1 Professor: Dr. Phill Conrad
• Mike and Steve started off with a general welcome speech and then broke into some news topics:
• Hp Thermal Inkjet Technology Put to Medical Use
• NAB Takes Fight Against "whitespace" Broadband to the Airwaves
• Microsoft Releases Fixes for Just Four Flaws
• IBM Throws Weight Behind OpenOffice.org Project
• Sony Debuts Rolly MP3 Player
• Guitar Hero III
• Apple A Day - Rent Movies on iTunes
• Online Sleuths Use Google to Find Pilot
• NTP Files Patent Suits Against AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint
• Talked about some random things for a while:
• Oprah and Barak Obama
• Rat Brain Controlling Flight Simulator and Drones
• Mike spoke for a while about the new CISC study abroad program and the recent trip to Switzerland:
• First ever study abroad
• CERN
• Possible study abroad in London coming up
• Discussed the semester agenda:
• Quantum Leap
• Xbox Tourney
• Rasmussen -- Robotics
• Visit to HostMySite.com data center
• Vanguard presentation
• Concentration night
• How-to nights
• LLC, web business start up discussion
• Concluded with everyone introducing themselves, their college status, and classes being taken