Free Video Game from Computer Science Undergrad Sean Nam

Computer science undergraduate Sangwoo (Sean) Nam has a new iPhone and iPad game out called Dragon Adventures: an Infinite Flying Game.

The game is free, check it out and see Sean's hard work in action. You can find this game and others on Sean's website, App Republic.

Dragon Adventures description below:

The ogres have destroyed the dragon's lair in the Dark Kingdom! Help the lone dragon survivor find the others in an epic journey! Prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime as you use fire balls to destroy ogres and monsters, collect coins and power ups, and upgrade your dragon! Can you find the survivors? Find out now!

Help UC San Diego team win the Cornell Cup

A team of UC San Diego students is a finalist in the Cornell Cup, a prestigious engineering competition, and now you can help support them! Each team writes a blog for the competition and the public has now been invited to vote on the blogs.
You can support the UC San Diego team by voting here. The first round of voting ends Feb. 14, with a second round running Feb. 15 to April 2. So vote early and vote often!
Team FANGS is building a ground vehicle that will serve as an observation platform to capture unique, close-quarters footage of wolves at night. The team, which started off as an Engineers for Exploration project here on campus, works closely with the California Wolf Center, located in Julian, east of San Diego.
The Cornell Cup USA, sponsored by Intel, is a college-level design competition created to challenge student teams to use the newest innovative applications of embedded technology in creative ways.
All finalists will converge on the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida in May to win up to $10,000.

Triton Entrepreneur Network / Talk by Dr. Robert Akins, Chief Technology Strategist of ASML and Senior Vice President of Cymer Technologies Division

The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center, Moxie Center, and Gordon Center -- all part of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering -- are pleased to announce the Triton Entrepreneur Network (TEN). 

TEN will have monthly events to bring in speakers and entrepreneurs to talk about topics that matter to innovatora. 

The first speaker is Dr. Robert Akins, Chief Technology Strategist of ASML and Senior Vice President of Cymer Technologies Division (and a UC San Diego alumnus). Read more about Akins, Richard Sandstrom, Cymer and ASML in this feature in the UC San Diego Triton Magazine.

When: The first TEN event will be on Thursday February 13th from 12 pm - 1:30 pm.

Where: Computer Science & Engineering Building, Room 1202

Register here.

Jacobs School of Engineering "Pi Run"

The 3rd annual Jacobs School of Engineering Pi-Mile (3.14) Run/Walk is on...you guessed it...3/14.

WHO: Anyone who is interested (even non-engineers!).

WHAT: The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is hosting the 3rd annual pi-mile (3.14) run/walk sponsored by the Jacobs Graduate Student Council (JGSC), and the Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC).
WHERE: The 

Bear Courtyard (between the Bioengineering and Computer Science and Engineering Buildings) - see route map.

WHEN: Friday March 14th, 2014 at 12:00pm.

WHY: To benefit the San Diego Science Alliance (http://sdsa.org/) - An organization that fosters K-12 science education in San Diego.
REGISTRATION  for the event is $10, which includes a free t-shirt and a slice of delicious pie! 

For the 2nd year in a row, we will be having a t-shirt contest to design the 2014 pi-run shirt. If you have design ideas, please send 300 dpi images tojacobsgraduatestudentcouncil@ucsd.edu

Hope to see you there!
JGSC & TESC

Students Test Their Pitch

Over 40 students, mentors and advisors gathered Jan.29 at the Moxie/ Rady PitchMatch Mixer for networking opportunities and pitches of new ideas. The Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship was founded within the Jacobs School of Engineering in 2012 to provide an educational program in entrepreneurship open to all UC San Diego students.

At the PitchMatch Mixer, 15 Startups pitched their ideas to a panel of judges from the business community.  Competitors entered Round 1 with 60-seconds pitches on the general idea of their product or service.  Round 2 selected 5 semi-finalists to discuss customers.  From there, 2 finalists were selected for Round 3 where competition was discussed.

Congratulations to Martyn Gross from "Skylit", a Rady School StartR Accelerator Program participant, for wining yesterday's PitchMatch competition!

Commercialization of the Internet

Former chairman of Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and Network Solutions (NSI), Michael Daniels will give a talk on the commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s, as well as offer a glimpse into the future challenges on Internet regulation, security and privacy issues.

With co-author Bob Beyster, founder, former CEO and chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Daniels recently published the book Names, Numbers, and Network Solutions. It is the story of NSI, then a small Virginia technology company, that helped bring about the commercialization of the Internet by providing access to the network and its domain name system.

Daniels and Beyster provide an insider’s view of the process of commercializing government-funded technology, and how success is anything but inevitable. Mike will be available to sign books, which can be purchased at the event or via Amazon.

This is part of the Rady School of Management 10thAnniversary Speakers Series.

When: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 · 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Where: UC San Diego campus in the J. Robert Beyster Auditorium · Wells Fargo Hall · 1st Floor · Rady School of Management

"Making sure we didn't step on each others code."

"Making sure we didn't step on each others code."

That's one of the quotes from a video about Jacobs School of Engineering students who spent the summer interning at Cubic as part of the Team Internship Program here at the Jacobs School.

The snipped of quote comes from a student talking about the challenges of working as a team on a software project. It's also a nice bit of poetic language.

The video is below.