Table of Contents

  1. Welcome to The Hacker Within
  2. The Hacker Within Logo
  3. Potential Topics for THW Meetings
  4. Unix Training Bootcamp
  5. C++ Boot Camp
  6. Python Bootcamp
  7. Past Meetings

Welcome to The Hacker Within

The Hacker Within is a student-run, skill-sharing interest group for scientific software development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We typically meet every week or two in room 414 of the Engineering Research Building for a discussion of some interesting programming and/or computation topic. The meetings are also a good place to ask questions, share ideas, and meet others who use computation in their research.

News

2/1/2010 - THW contributions to Sahana relief efforts in the news

This week, University journalist Renee Mieller interviewed our own Nico and Milad (and Katy) about how an open source programming paradigm allowed pythonistas to lend their skills to relief efforts in Haiti. Nico's presentation on these efforts will soon be available in the Past Meetings wiki.

THW Python Boot Camp was a Success

Visit python.hackerwithin.org for more information about the boot camp, including notes, tutorials, and the feedback from attendees http://python.hackerwithin.org/feedback.

12/12/2009 - Condor meeting now available on YouTube

You can now watch meeting with Todd Tannenbaum on Condor at our YouTube page here.

11/8/2009 - THWPYBC2010 meeting this Friday!

There will be a meeting to discuss the Python boot camp this Friday in room 410 of the Engineering Research Building (Milad's office)

10/16/2009 - Material from 10/9/2009 Meeting on Profiling and Debugging Available

Milad gave a talk on profiling your code using gprof and debugging using a combination of gdb and ddd. The material from that talk, and links to the the !Youtube video can be found at our past meetings page [direct link].

9/29/2009 - Material from 9/25/2009 meeting on General Purpose GPU programming available

Dan Negrut gave an excellent talk on GPGPU programming. All of the material, including two 90 minute introductory slide shows, and links to YouTube videos of his talk can be found on our past meetings pages [direct link]. We are going to try and record all of our meetings from now on.

9/1/2009 - New article about THW!

Check out an article that was just written about THW for Episodes, a regular news letter for the Engineering Physics department [direct link].

Next THW Meeting

The next meeting is currently being planned

Check out the list of topics for future meetings at PotentialTopics. Email hacker.within.admin@… with ideas for meetings or if there is something you really want discussed.

Contact Information

If you'd like more information about The Hacker Within, feel free to send an email to hacker.within.admin@…, or come visit:

Milad Fatenejad
410 Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Drive

Katy Huff
434 Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Drive

To join the Hacker Within mailing list, powered by Google Groups, click here. To browse the archives, click here.

We also use delicious to share links of interest to this group. Feel free to tag items in your own delicious bookmarks with the tag hacker.within.

Past Events

Boot Camps

[UNIX Bootcamp] -- January 12-15, 2009
[C++ Boot Camp] -- March 24-31, 2009
[Python Boot Camp] -- January 12-14, 2010

Meetings

[The Archive of Past Meetings] can be browsed or updated by anyone. -- June 6, 2009 to present.

Articles

[Articles] Articles on various computing topics

Using This Site

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