** COIN 61 - 7W Midterm the Weekend!! **

If you are in COIN 61, you have a midterm exam this weekend. Sometime between 8:00 am today and 10:00 pm Saturday, log on to Etudes NG and choose Tests. You can review test taking in the Modules > Student User Guide 1.3 Taking Tests or click the My Workspace tab and then choose Learn how to take tests in the system (on the right under Tips and Information). For more information, see this week's Online Guide.

Think clearly and breathe deeply! Good luck!

** Foothill’s New Entrepreneur Center Now Open! **

Our new Foothill Entrepreneur Center is now open five days a week for all students and community interested in the “Entrepreneurial Mindset.”

If any of you are interested in participating in the Second Annual Business Plan Competition with up to $10,000 in scholarships awards, please stop by or check our Website at www.foothillentrepreneurs.com.

** Planned Network Outage **

There will be a planned network outage on Thursday night October 30th from 11PM to 3 AM. Please plan your schedules accordingly.

** News for Foothill Students **

University Transfer Day Is Oct. 30

Admissions representatives from more than 50 colleges and universities, including the University of California, California State University, private schools, and out-of-state and international institutions will meet with Foothill students at the college's annual University Transfer Day Thursday, Oct. 30, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Plaza. Admission is free.

The event gives you the opportunity to meet one to one with admissions reps, and get answers to questions about financial aid, degree requirements, housing and more. Foothill hosts the annual event to showcase the variety of choices and options available as you prepare to make your transfer decisions. University Transfer Day is sponsored by the college's Counseling Division and Career/Transfer Center. For more information, access www.foothill.edu/transfer/center/ or call (650) 949-7235.


Free Flu Vaccinations for Students

It's vaccination season and Foothill students with documentation of current registration can get a flu shot at no charge beginning Oct. 20 while supplies last at the Foothill Health Services Office in the Campus Center in Room 2126. For $15, Foothill faculty and staff with proof of employment can also receive flu vaccinations. Payment by personal check or credit card is preferred. Flu shots are administered Mondays through Fridays, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 2126. For clinic hours at the Main and Middlefield campuses, call (650) 949-7243.

Book Arts Jam 2008

This weekend, Foothill hosts the popular seventh annual Book Arts Jam Saturday, Oct. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Campus Center at Foothill College. Admission is free. Visitors must purchase a required parking permit for $2. The one-day event includes individual displays by more than 50 book arts exhibitors and vendors; demonstrations of book arts skills by artists and craftspeople; talks and Q&A sessions by book artists about the creative process and working methods; print studio open house, artists' book virtual exhibition slideshow; and a silent auction.

Sponsored by Bay Area Book Artists and Foothill College, the Book Arts Jam is funded in part by a grant from Arts Council Silicon Valley, in partnership with Santa Clara County and the California Arts Council. For more information, access www.bookartsjam.org.

Foothill College Authors Series Features Best-Selling Author Michelle Richmond


The Foothill College Author Series presents Michelle Richmond, the New York Times best-selling author of The Year of Fog, Wednesday, Oct. 22, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Student Lounge. Admission is free and the public is invited. Visitors must purchase a required parking permit for $2.

The Year of the Fog was selected by Kirkus Reviews as a "top pick for reading groups" and appeared on the Washington Post's “2007 A-List” as well as Library Journal's "Best Books of 2007." The book has been translated into seven languages and is in development with Newmarket Films. Her latest novel, No One You Know, was released in July 2008. Her previous books are the novel, Dream of the Blue Room, and the award-winning story collection, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. Learn more at preznet.fhda.edu/fas.html.

Deadline to Register to Vote


The deadline to vote in the national general election is Oct. 20.


ASFC Halloween Event

ASFC Halloween Event Oct. 29 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Campus Center Plaza, Call (650) 949-7282 or e-mail davorentricia@foothill.edu.

The Enchanted on Stage at Foothill


The Foothill College Theatre Arts Department presents The Enchanted, a joyous, supernatural romance written by Jean Giraudoux and adapted by Maurice Valency, Nov. 7 through Nov. 23 in the new Lohman Theatre at Foothill College. Evening performances are Nov. 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. Matinees are Nov. 16 and 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $16, general admission; $12, students and seniors; $8, Foothill students with OwlCard. For best seating choice flexibility and immediate purchase confirmation, purchase tickets online at www.foothill.edu/fa. For group discount rates and to order tickets by phone, call (650) 949-7360. Visitors must purchase a required parking permit for $2.

Code Camp 2008: Register Now!

Once again, Code Camp will be coming to the Foothill campus for two intensive days of presentations and networking opportunities with over with over 600 currently registered attendees. This is a great opportunity for networking.

This year’s code camp will be held on Saturday, November 8th and Sunday, November 9th 2008.

The event is FREE and you can register for it by going to:

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/

There are already over 90 sessions signed covering lots of technologies including ones from Microsoft, Sun, Yahoo, Open Source and others. Please register for Code Camp if you can make it and if you have any interest in giving a session, please sign up for one after you register.
Code Camp is a completely free event put on by volunteers including all the speakers. If you have not done much presenting, this is the perfect place to start out. If you're a veteran presenter, you will be among many friends as we already have some of the top presenters from the bay area committed to speaking.

Since this is a volunteer event, the more financial sponsors we have, the more fun things we can do. If you are interested in contributing, either financially or otherwise, please go to the fol- lowing URL and read about the details:

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sponsors.aspx

In addition, we will make announcements on the following RSS feed so please subscribe to that. For the past 2 years, many people commented how helpful the RSS feed was for keeping track of updates.

http:// www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Rss.aspx

For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Code Camp Coordinator, Peter Kellner at (408) 823-1385 or at http://peterkellner.net

** An Evening with 2008 CHM Fellow Jean Jennings Bartik **

The Computer History Museum presents...

An Evening with 2008 CHM Fellow Jean Jennings Bartik
In Conversation with Linda O’Bryon

One of the first women in technology…!

Born on a farm in Missouri, the sixth of seven children, Jean Jennings Bartik always went in search of adventure. Bartik majored in mathematics at Northwest Missouri State Teachers College (now Northwest Missouri State University). During her college years, WWII broke out, and in 1945, at age 20, Bartik answered the government's call for women math majors to join a project in Philadelphia calculating ballistics firing tables for the new guns developed for the war effort. A new employee of the Army's Ballistics Research Labs, she joined over 80 women calculating ballistics trajectories (differential calculus equations) by hand - her title: “Computer.”

Later in 1945, the Army circulated a call for "computers" for a new job with a secret machine. Bartik jumped at the chance and was hired as one of the original six programmers of ENIAC, the first all-electronic, programmable computer. She joined Frances “Betty” Snyder Holberton, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum and Frances Bilas Spence in this unknown journey.

With ENIAC's 40 panels still under construction, and its 18,000 vacuum tube technology uncertain, the engineers had no time for programming manuals or classes. Bartik and the other women taught themselves ENIAC's operation from its logical and electrical block diagrams, and then figured out how to program it. They created their own flow charts, programming sheets, wrote the program and placed it on the ENIAC using a challenging physical interface, which had hundreds of wires and 3,000 switches. It was an unforgettable, wonderful experience.

On February 15, 1946, the Army revealed the existence of ENIAC to the public. In a special ceremony, the Army introduced ENIAC and its hardware inventors Dr. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. The presentation featured its trajectory ballistics program, operating at a speed thousands of time faster than any prior calculations. The ENIAC women's program worked perfectly - and conveyed the immense calculating power of ENIAC and its ability to tackle themillennium problems that had previously taken a man 100 years to do. It calculated the trajectory of a shell that took 30 seconds to trace it. But, it took ENIAC only 20 seconds to calculate it - faster than a speeding bullet! Indeed!

The Army never introduced the ENIAC women.

No one gave them any credit or discussed their critical part in the event that day. Their faces, but not their names, became part of the beautiful press pictures of the ENIAC. For forty years, their roles and their pioneering work were forgotten and their story lost to history. The ENIAC Women's story was discovered by Kathy Kleiman in 1985. Bartik will discuss what it means to be overlooked, despite unique and pioneering work, and what it means to be discovered again.

Where

• Computer History Museum
• Hahn Auditorium
• 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
• Mountain View, CA 94043

When

• Wednesday, October 22, 2008
• 6 pm Reception - Open to all attendees
• 7 pm Program
• Wine provided by The Mountain Winery

Registration

• Free. Members should register early, as this event will sell out. Suggested donation of $10.00 at the door from non-members. To register or for more information on the event, please visit the Museum's website or call (650) 810-1005.

** Register to VOTE **

Registration deadlines are coming up soon. In order to be eligible to vote in the California statewide election on November 4, 2008, your registration must be postmarked no later than October 20, 2008.



In California, click HERE for more information about registering and voting.

VoteforChange.com makes it easier than ever to register. Instead of tracking down the right forms, all you need to do is answer a few basic questions and you'll be ready to vote. You can also:

• Confirm your existing registration
• Apply to vote absentee
• Find your polling place

If you don't know your own registration status or you'd like to learn more, take a minute to visit the site right now.

This race is too close and too important to stay home on Election Day.

** Happy Birthday Google **

In honor of Google's 10th birthday, they have made their oldest available archive from 2001 available once again. So go here, google yourself, and find out if you had an internet presence way back at the beginning of this century. (h/t Miriam at Feministing)

** Problems with Krypton Server (updated) **

--Update

Service appears to have been restored.

*****

I have had only intermittent access to the Krypton web server this morning. There may be power problems at Foothill...or not. Either way, if you cannot access either the COIN 61 or 63 sites or your own sites, that is probably the reason.

--Update
As of 4:35 pm, neither the Dean or the System Admin have responded to my messages. Please do what you can and I will post any updates as I receive them.

** COIN 63 Quiz this Weekend **

If you are in COIN 63, Advanced Web Technologies, you have a quiz this weekend. Sometime between 8:00 am Friday and 10:00 pm Saturday, log on to Etudes NG and choose Tests. If you've never taken a quiz in Etudes NG before, review in the Modules > Student User Guide 1.3 Taking Tests or click the My Workspace tab and then choose Learn how to take tests in the system (on the right under Tips and Information).

Check the Week 2 Online Guide for your class for more info.

** Banned Books Week **

Celebrating the Freedom to Read!
Updated below...

Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. People challenge books that they say are too sexual or too violent. They object to profanity and slang, and protest against offensive portrayals of racial or religious groups--or positive portrayals of homosexuals. Their targets range from books that explore the latest problems to classic and beloved works of American literature.

Be informed! Find out more about banned books and buy them to read at:

Books Inc.
301 Castro St.
Mountain View, CA 94041

Books Inc.
855 El Camino Real #74
Palo Alto , CA 94301

Update (h/t Tracy K):

You can also find banned titles in your local library. If you want to find out who the past and/or top authors and titles challenged presently and in past, check out the American Library Association's Banned Books page.