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Seminar Schedule

We bring in a variety of speakers to campus to talk about things that might not normally be covered in our classes.

When possible, these seminars are recorded and made available to current students and faculty/staff in this Google Drive folder (requires 1Hope login).

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place from 11–11:50 a.m. in VanderWerf room 102.

Fall 2024

September 5 — Summer research presentations, part I

Student teams of Justin Gumbis/Isaac Stigler and Tobias Shaw/Peter Worden will present their summer research projects.

September 19 — Summer research presentations, part II

Student teams of Mariel Domnenko/Gillian Donley/YiFan Luo and Chris Laubach/Mackenize Niswonger will present their summer research projects.

October 3 — Russell Fyfe, rainplan

Russell will present a talk focused on how no-code and traditional coding can work together to empower teams, speed up development, and facilitate flexibility and customization.

October 17— brian TOL, spindance

Brian will give a presentation on Dev Containers, a Visual Studio Code technology that allows developers to interact with a Docker container directly from VS Code, helping teams ensure they are using the same versions of tools.

october 24— G. Thomas Williams, McGarry Bair

Tom works for the law firm of McGarry Bair in Grand Rapids. At McGarry Bair, Tom puts his intellect to work in very interesting ways — designing and introducing technologies that speed and manage the firm’s work, laying out strategies for developing McGarry Bair offerings, brainstorming new ways to make intellectual property law painless and profitable for our customers.

Tom’s presentation will talk about how computer science, and technology more broadly, interact with the law.

November 7— michael kiley, Apple

Topic to be determined

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