• HBHH

Half-Baked Half Hour 2009

Half-Baked Half Hour (HBHH) is a gathering of grad students who want to share their half-baked research ideas and insights. This is a great opportunity for students to share their more ambitious or off-the-wall ideas in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Each week we have a 1-2 people lined up to give 10- or 20-minute presentations on their half-baked ideas. Overall, HBHH is semi-serious fun, and people end up learning something in the process.

Location and Time

• Every Wednesday starting at 2:00 pm in Room 3109 during the Summer.

Participation (highly encouraged!)

We encourage presenters to make their talks accessible to a broad CS grad student audience. We also encourage the audience to heckle the presenters (or at least provide insightful feedback). Unlike last year, we are opening the floor to projects that people already have in progress. Snacks will be provided thanks to generous support from GSA. Please contact Justin < jtma@cs.ucsd.edu > if you are interested in presenting a 10-minute or 20-minute presentation.

Schedule for Summer 2009 (June 24 - Sept 16)

June 24

• Announcements (PDF)

• Barath Raghavan (pic1) --- A Brief (Future) History of HBHH

• More pics: (pic2) (pic3)

July 1

• Macneil Shonle --- A Brain Dump from the Past Several Months

July 8

• Announcements (PDF)

• Alden King (pic1), John McCullough --- The Miracle of Beer

July 15

• Announcements (PDF)

• Kaisen Lin (pic1) --- Cafe Vita

• Justin Ma (pic2) --- Emerging Trends in Architecture and Machine Learning

July 22

• Announcements (PDF)

• Ross Tate (pic2), Zach Tatlock (pic1) --- Talk-over-IP: How to Present Your Research Results over the Net

July 29

• Announcements (PDF)

• Half-Baked Debate Session

August 5

• Announcements (PDF)

• Natalie Castellana --- Lasers, Time Travel and SR-71s (aka How to Give a Better Talk than Kirill)

August 12

• Announcements (PDF)

• Patricia Shanahan (pic1) --- Welcome to Life as a Programmer in 1970

August 19

• Announcements (PDF)

• Anshuman Gupta (pic1) --- Swarm Computing

August 26

• Half-Baked Discussion Session

September 2

• Announcements (PDF)

• Yuvraj Agarwal (pic1) --- Green Computing: Hype or Hard Truth?

• CSE people (pic2)

September 9

• Announcements (PDF)

• Chris Kanich (pic1) --- TBD

• Justin is not a happy camper after losing a bet on the Maryland vs. Cal football game (pic2)

September 16

• Frank Uyeda --- Google Detention

History

HBHH was started in Summer 2006 by a ragtag group of systems students who longed for the intellectual stimulation of the group lunch seminars. Since then, it has evolved into an outlet for grad students across the entire department to quench their thirst (and loneliness) during the summer.

• Past HBHHs (with pictures): Summer 2008