Cole & Lekden Win Supercomputing Challenge Award
Cole Tufti and Tenzin Tungtok won the Sandia National Laboratories Creativity and Innovation Award at the 19th New Mexico Supercomputer Challenge earlier this month. The students developed a virtual air-hockey game under the mentorship of Stephen Guerin and John Paul Gonzales at Santa Fe Complex. Here’s their YouTube video of the game’s construction: Read more
Broadband, Stimulus and Net Access
| May 6, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
RIchard Lowenberg of 1st-Mile is coordinating New Mexico’s efforts in the Obama stimulus plan for broadband infrastructure. Join him at the Complex for an update on those efforts and the issues facing broadband rollouts nationwide. Read more
re:MakeIT!
Are you ready for something different in the “city different”? Do you have an idea for kinetic sculpture or interactive installation art: do you make your own music or create your own performances? Would you rather make it than buy it, become the entertainment rather than be entertained? Then we are looking for visionaries like you and your inspired ideas. Read more
WPI Bootstrappers Report on Their Work
| May 6, 2009 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Six interns from Worcester Polytechnic Institute have been working at the Complex since early April to determine the feasibility of a Santa Fe Project Center for WPI at the Complex. If successful, the Santa Fe Center would join WPI’s 13 other global project centers as a location for applied research in the WPI engineering program. The students will preview their report at the Complex on Wednesday night, May 6, at 5:30pm. (Please note the time change from 5:00 as originally announced.) Read more
Santa Fe Alliance Business Development Workshops
| April 28, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The Santa Fe Alliance will present a Triple Bottom Line workshop, the first in a series of business workshops, Tuesday, April 28 from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Complex. Sponsored by the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund, the Santa Fe Alliance Business Development Workshops were launched in 2007 in order to present seminars on business-related topics such as marketing, customer service, entrepreneurial tools, licensing, organizational change, and successful business growth. Read more
Siftables and More with David Merrill
| May 11, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
David Merrill, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at MIT, modestly says his research interests revolve around expanding human capabilities with technological tools that take advantage of our existing skills. In practice, that becomes Siftables, an evolutionary and revolutionary expansion of the building blocks we all used as toddlers to learn how to build relations and structures among objects. Read more
IgniteSF
| April 29, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The Ignite movement comes to Santa Fe on April 29 with Warholesque fame for anyone wanting to discuss their work in technology & computer science — or anything else on their minds. The hitch? Fame is compressed into a 5 minute video presentation with 20 slides rotating automatically every 15 seconds. If you can meet the challenge, Ignite is for you. Read more
Summer Math Group
| June 5, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 12, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 19, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 26, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Math Circle is back. Why don’t you join us?
No knowledge of math at any level necessary! The group is about starting from nothing (or not much) and exploring strange and beautiful ideas with noting more than markers and board. Think of it as build-it-yourself math. Sometimes we will start with a game-or play a game the whole session. Or learn how to see the world like a Flatlander from the second dimension would. Tie ourselves up in knots, perhaps. Read more
Beer and Gear TV: Web Marketing Tools You Can Use
| April 30, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The New Mexico Tech Council invites you to the second Beer and Gear Northern NM Chapter to explore the ever-changing web marketing. The playing field of Internet marketing has taken on a whole new approach that leverage websites, blogging, webcasting, and search engine optimization. Come find out how you can utilize these powerful tools to maximize your marketing efforts. (You must be 21 to attend.) Read more
RENew Santa Fe
| April 28, 2009 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs are working in concert with local energy businesses and WildEarth Guardians to develop a program that will chart the course for renewable energy development in Santa Fe. Ultimately, the REnew Project will produce a series of computer simulation models that will chart various energy scenarios for Santa Fe and provide a series of complimenting road maps for renewable energy implementation. This initial meeting will begin the process for the RENew effort. Read more
