Please come to Tuesday's lecture on GPUs, OpenGL, and GLSL as it will be necesary for finishing modeler!

We will be having our annual (optional) trip to the CAVE on Thursday, December 4th from 12:30pm to 2pm. The CAVE is located here:

Have a great Thanksgiving! Here's a bunny with a pancake on its head:

Modeler, the *last* CS123 assignment is now out! The algo is due on Nov. 24th and the project is due on December 9th. See the assignments page for details.

We will be having an optional, extra-credit lab teaching WPF for computer graphics on Monday, 11/24 from 3-7pm in the MSLab. Yay!

Bill Buxton will be giving a lecture on Surface Computing on Monday, November 17th at 4pm.

Bill Buxton is the author of, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, published jointly by Morgan Kaufmann and Focal Press. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and has a 30 year involvement in research, design and commentary around human aspects of technology, and digital tools for creative endeavour, including music, film and industrial design, in particular. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. In 2007, he was named Doctor of Design, Honoris Causa, by the Ontario College of Art and Design, and in 2008 became the 10^th recipient of the ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.

More information on Buxton and his work can be found at: www.billbuxton.com

There will be no class on Tuesday, November 25th (right before Thanksgiving break). Enjoy your Turkey! Also, CS123 does not hold class during reading period. Enjoy your tests!

Dreamworks is coming to campus 11/10 and 11/11! If you're interested in applying for an internship or full-time job, apply online through the Career Development website. For more information, come to the DreamWorks Animation Company Overview with Marilyn Friedman on Monday 11/10 at 11-12am.

The semesterly UTA and Research Infosession will be tomorrow 4 - 5pm. Come find out about all the neat stuff going on in the department. Also, eat the pizza. If you're getting this e-mail, there is a course you're qualified to TA, so definitely do come.

This is just a reminder that the Intersect algo is due Thursday, October 30th, at 5pm. There will be a short helpsession afterwards at 7pm in the Motorola room (CIT 165). The semester is going to start moving really fast with the last three projects, so we'd advise you to start working on Intersect asap if you haven't already.

As a side note, check out this concise overview of raytracing as an extra resource. This site also contains explanations of several other rendering concepts.

And if you haven't already voted absentee, make sure to get out and vote on November 4th!

This is just a reminder to graduate students that if you are taking CS123 for graduate credit, you are expected to implement as much of the extra credit as possible for each of the assignments. In particular, if you do well on every assignment (generally in the A range) and implement some form of extra credit for each one as well, you can expect to receive graduate credit at the end of the course. If you have any questions about this policy, feel free to email cs123headtas@cs.brown.edu.

Pixar Animation Studios is coming to campus on October 20 for a presentation and October 21 for on-campus interviews! If you are interested in finding out what it is like to work at Pixar and apply for an internship or full time position, now is your chance! Pixar's presentation will take place on Monday, October 20, in MacMillan 115, and interviews will be held on Tuesday, October 21, in the Career Center. Apply now for an opportunity through the Career Center. If selected for an interview, you may be asked to bring some visual materials to the interview. Hope to see you there!

The filter algo, homework, and project went out last week. The algo and homework will be due on October 16th and the project will be due on October 22nd. The help session will be on 10/16 at 7pm in Motorola.

Sceneview has gone out! The sceneview algo is due by 3pm on Saturday, October 4th and there will be a question-based helpsession soon after at 5pm in the Motorola Room. The project is due next Friday, October 10th at 11:59pm. View the assignments page for more details.

Please vote! Here's how to do it (it's so easy!)

1. Register in your home state or in Rhode Island (Deadlines)
2. Learn about the candiates
3. Vote! The election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008

This pitch was sponsored by the CS123 TA Staff and the CS Department. We love freedom!

As many of you already know, this week is a special career week at Brown, and there will be employers from many companies on campus. We'd like to throw a shout out for a few events in particular that cs123 students should probably be interested in:

• Microsoft's "Meet the Company" (Tuesday 5:30-6:30 in Lubrano)

  Meet the Company is where Microsoft alumni talk about what its like to work for MS -- and, of course, they're going to be giving out cool prizes.

• Career Fair (Tuesday/Wednesday 12pm-4:00 in Sayles)

  Dozens of companies and their respective representatives will be there to answer questions and take resumes, including many of the top CS companies.

The handout and code have been released for the third assignment, Camtrans. Camtrans is broken up into two mini-assignments, algebra and camtrans respectively. The entire assignment will be due on Wednesday, October 1st at 11:59pm. This assignment has the potential of being quite difficult, so please make sure to read the handout early this weekend and check over the support code as soon as possible.

The algo for Camtrans, went out in class on Thursday and will be due next Tuesday, September 23rd, at 5pm. There will be a question-and-answer based helpsession shortly thereafter, at 7pm on Tuesday, September 23rd.

View the assignments page for more details.