Samedi .NET - Introduction au B.I.
Sujet: Introduction au B.I.
Date: Samedi 25 septembre 2010
Heure: 9h00 à 16h00
Langue: Français et Anglais
Endroit:
Pavillon des Sciences de la gestion (R)
315, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, H2X 3X2
http://www.uqam.ca/campus/pavillons/r.htm
Coût: 5$ pour les membres + frais de service EventBrite (vous devez aussi
être membre de la Communauté .NET)
IMPORTANT: Vous devez être membre en règle et débourser $5 + les frais.
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La Communauté .NET vous propose une journée de formation complète sur le B.I.
Le but de la journée est de de faire un tour d'horizon des bases et des techonogies
de B.I. Le public cible est un développeur .NET ou un DBA n'ayant jamais fait
de B.I. Le format de la journée est "hands-on" avec une série de démos
ayant une suite logique.
La salle étant en forme d'amphithéatre avec tables, vous serez donc à l'aise pour
prendre des notes. N'oubliez pas d'apporter papier et crayons. Il n'est
pas nécessaire d'apporter un ordinateur. Pour ceux qui désirent apporter un
ordinateur portatif, notez que nous ne garantissons pas que des prises électriques
soient disponibles. Veuillez apporter une extension électrique. Notez
qu'il n'y aura pas d'accès Internet.
Le lunch n'est pas inclus. Des machines distributices ($) sont à proximité de
la salle pour ceux qui désirent café, boissons gazeuses, eau et friandises.
Pensez à apporter votre p'tit change
Cette activité sera ouverte pour les membres en règle de la Communauté seulement.
Vous pourez devenir membre en utilisant une carte
de crédit et PayPal (pas besoin d'avoir un compte PayPal). Pour plus d'information,
veuillez consulter notre site Web à l'adresse suivante: www.dotnetmontreal.com
Je suis déjà membre, dois-je débourser le $5? Oui car l'organisation de cette
journée requiert la location d'une grande salle et l'utilisation de matériel audio-vidéo.
Votre $5 sert donc à couvrir ces frais. Reste que pour une journée de formation
sur le B.I., $5 c'est pas tellement cher
Agenda (sujet à changements de dernière minute)
Sujet
Conférencier
9h00
Mot de bienvenue et description de l'architecture du projet: Éric Moreau
9h30
Concept de framework/préparation des templates (SSIS): Christian Côté
10h15
Chargement des dimensions et table de faits: Sébastien Notebaert
11h15
Pause
11h30
Description du cube: Charles Verdon
12h00
Lunch (non inclus)
13h00
Création du cube avec Analysis Services (SSAS): Charles Verdon
13h45
Utilisation et création de rapports avec Reporting Services (SSRS): David Myers (anglais)
14h30
Pause
14h45
Utilisation et création de rapports avec Power Pivot: Michelle Gutzait (anglais)
15h30
Questions et conclusion
Christian Côté
Nos conférenciers pour la journée
Éric Moreau
Éric Moreau est un consultant indépendant ayant plus de 16 années d’expériences diversifiées.
Il développe principalement des applications de type client/serveur utilisant VB et
MS SQL Server (et plusieurs autres technologies autour) principalement dans les industries
bancaire, financière et de service. Il travaille avec VB depuis la version 4 et l'enseigne
depuis la version 5. Il détient les certifications Microsoft Certified Professional
Developer (MCPD). Il a de plus obtenu le titre de MVP Visual Basic en 2004. Il est
un membre du Groupe d'Utilisateurs Visual Studio Montréal et co-leader de la section
SQL ou il donne régulièrement des présentations. Il est aussi présentateur à plusieurs
conférences tel que TechDays, DevTeach, CodeCamp.
Christian Côté
Christian Côté est un consultant en informatique depuis maintenant un peu plus d'une
douzaine d'années. Il est certifié Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist Business
Intelligence (MCTS-BI) et est aussi MVP Team System. Depuis plus de neuf ans, il est
principalement impliqué dans des projets ETL (extraction-transformation-chargement
de données) avec SQL Server et Oracle.
Sébastien Notebaert
M. Sébastien Notebaert a 12 années d’expérience en informatique, plus particulièrement
dans le domaine des entrepôts de données et des systèmes informationnels. Au cours
de ses mandats et emplois antérieurs, il a su, dans un premier temps, acquérir une
solide base technique et, dans un deuxième temps, parfaire ses aptitudes à l’analyse
et à la formation. Il est un candidat versatile, professionnel et possédant un leadership
naturel. Étant un habile communicateur bilingue, il se révèle un atout au sein d’une
équipe.
Sébastien Notebaert has a 12-year experience in computer consulting, mainly in data
warehousing and informational systems development. Over the course of his projects
he acquired solid technical and programming skills combined with functional analysis
and project managing skills. Thus, he is a versatile, autonomous and professional
individual who possesses natural leadership. He is also a good bilingual communicator
making him an efficient team player.
Charles Verdon
Charles Verdon est consultant en informatique spécialisé en intelligence d'affaire.
Président de SharpEdge Development, une petite firme de consultation spécialisée en
intelligence d'affaire et en développement .NET, il travaille présentement comme technical
lead Microsoft BI dans le département Agile du CN. Charles oeuvre dans le secteur
des TI depuis environs 10 ans, mais se spécialise en intelligence d'affaire depuis
3 ans. Auparavant il était développeur .NET et SQL Server pour diverses compagnies
de la région de Montréal.
David Myers
David is an IT professional and developer at the Upper Canada District School Board
(Brockville, ON). He primarily works with SQL Server, SharePoint and Windows
Client / Server infrastructure, but like many Canadian IT professionals he wears many
hats. As a SQL Server MVP and a member of Microsoft’s Springboard Technical
Experts Panel (STEP) he is constantly looking to connect with people that share his
passion for technology. In his spare time David works as a Microsoft Certified
Trainer in the Kingston and Ottawa areas.
Michelle Gutzait
Michelle is the SQL Server Team Lead at The Pythian Group (www.pythian.com),
a remote DBA firm that offers full database support for SQL Server, Oracle and
MySQL as well as System Administration services, including monitoring, reporting,
and 24/7 service. She has been in the IT for over 20 years, working exclusively
with SQL Server in the past decade, consulting for many and diverse clients, from
small businesses to enterprise. Some of her recent clients in Montreal and Canada
are: Bombardier Aerospace, SCN Lavalin, CBC-Radio-Canada, CN, Lauzon and McCain Foods.
Michelle's skills include infrastructure and database design, performance tuning,
security, High Availability and Clustering, consolidation analysis, Disaster Recovery,
Very Large Databases, replication, T-SQL coding and optimization, DTS/SSIS packages,
administrative and infrastructure tools development, Reporting Services, Analysis
Services, MIIS, developer/DBA training, and more. She also regularly writes technical
articles for the Tech Target and MSSQLTips WEB sites. Her URL: http://michelle-gutzait.spaces.live.com/ .
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Plastic Logic QUE official: wireless downloads, truVue e-magazines
Plastic Logic have officially unveiled their QUE ereader, and as expected they’re heavily pushing their innovative touchscreen technology and flexible plastic e-paper. In fact the QUE is not solely being positioned as an ebook reader; Plastic Logic have also given it email and calendar support, together with Outlook sync, and rather than clutter the all-plastic bezel with hardware controls the UI is 99-percent touch and gesture based.
The solitary hardware control is the home key in the top-right corner; for everything else you swipe through pages and menus, tapping to select. There’s an onscreen keyboard for searches, and you can save preset search queries for regular use.
For content, like the nook the QUE uses Barnes & Noble’s ebook store, with wireless access over 3G or WiFi depending on model; you can purchase titles – Plastic Logic are pushing business ebooks, since they’re initially targeting the QUE at professionals, but you’ll be able to pick up regular ebooks too – either from the QUE itself or via a desktop browser and have them wirelessly delivered. Non-ebook file type support includes PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and all can be annotated either with a finger or via the onscreen keyboard. File conversion is handled by a virtual printer or a desktop widget.
QUE is also taking on print news, with a new truVue format – developed in collaboration with Adobe – that can apparently better display page layouts for e-newspapers and e-magazines. We’re guessing there’s some nifty DRM in there too, to prevent QUE owners handing around content at will rather than individually subscribing to daily downloads. Content will be available from the Financial Times, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, and IDG publication titles including CIO, Network World, and Computerworld, together with the Down Jones company and the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and All Things Digital, as well as Forbes and Fast Company, the Sporting News and several major regional newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, and San Jose Mercury News.
Preorders for the QUE proReader are being taken today, priced at $649 for the 4GB model with WiFi or $799 for the 8GB model with both WiFi and 3G. It’s expected to begin shipping in mid-April 2010. Later in 2010, QUE will be available through Barnes & Noble, both in-store and online.
Press Release:
Introducing the QUE™ proReader
More than an eReader, QUE is uniquely designed as an essential tool to lighten the workload of mobile professionals.
Sleek industrial design, intuitive user interface, powerful applications and QUE Store define a premium business reading experience. | 7 January 2010
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 7, 2010 – Plastic Logic today unveiled QUE™ (pronounced “Q”), the world’s first proReader. More than an eReader, QUE is designed specifically to provide a premium reading experience and access to content anywhere anytime, while simplifying the multi-faceted lifestyle of business professionals –and to literally lighten their workload.
With its sleek 8.5 x 11 inch form factor, crisp large touchscreen display, intuitive user interface and powerful tools, QUE stands out in the crowd. QUE is currently on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (Central Hall of Las Vegas Convention Center at Booth 11840 anchoring the e-Book Techzone).
“Today we are introducing two major advancements: the birth of a new market category, the proReader, and a milestone in the evolution of plastic electronics,” said Richard Archuleta, CEO of Plastic Logic. “The QUE proReader was built from the ground up for people who need to read. Starting today, mobile professionals can look forward to a paperless briefcase, a lighter load, and a better way to work.”
Like paper, only better
The inspiration for QUE was an age-old but perfect business tool: a simple sheet of paper. QUE was designed to have the benefits of paper, but without the weight and clutter. Just like paper, QUE is easy to hold and feels good in your hands. But it’s easier to search and find exactly what you’re looking for.
The size of a pad of paper, about 1/3 inch thick, and weighing less than many periodicals (about a pound), QUE features a 10.7-inch shatterproof plastic display — the largest display in the market.
Exclusive plastic display technology
The patented plastic display technology in QUE has been 10 years in development, since Plastic Logic’s founding by researchers from the renowned University of Cambridge (UK) Cavendish Labs. The unique plastic displays are produced in Plastic Logic’s world-first commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany. Combined with E Ink Vizplex® technology, they produce an outstanding reading experience that looks and reads just like paper even in direct sunlight.
QUE Design: A celebration of black and white print
Designed through a unique collaboration between Plastic Logic and IDEO, the QUE design was inspired by black and white print—a communications standard that is both classic and timeless. In addition to being the easiest to read, black and white is often the most visually striking combination.
“We wanted to highlight the optical qualities of plastic,” said IDEO’s Caroline Fagiello, who serves as Plastic Logic’s acting creative director. “Think of pools of black ink captured in a glass ink well against a crisp sheet of white linen paper.”
Plastic Logic created QUE to feel as natural in your hand as a pad of paper, while conveying the level of premium quality craftsmanship of a fine pen. Its proprietary user interface is as intuitive and easy as paper and ink.
The simple, but powerful QUE user interface is uniquely designed for functionality in the day-to-day world of the business professional. Its signature home view provides your appointments for the day and all of the information you need, including a customized view of your content – your daily newspaper, magazines, and other essential materials – as well as immediate access to the QUE Store to get what you need whenever you need it.
All your content, all the time
Designed for more than good looks, QUE provides instant access to the content busy professionals need at their fingertips all day long – all their content anywhere any time: Read a newspaper over morning coffee. Review your appointments imported from Outlook. Have every document you need when you need it. And at the end of the day, relax with a good book.
In addition to highly valued business and professional newspapers, periodicals and eBooks, QUE supports reading and annotating document formats business users need (including PDF, Microsoft Office, ePub documents and more). With the QUE software, it’s easy to quickly convert and transfer content from your PC, Mac™ computer, or BlackBerry® smartphone to your QUE.
The standard 4GB QUE model can hold up to 35,000 documents or the equivalent of up to 35 filing cabinets worth of documents. If your paper-laden briefcase and file cabinets are bulging at the seams, the 8GB model holds up to 75,000 documents or the equivalent of the contents of up to 75 filing cabinets¹.
Powerful tools for interacting with your content
Storage means nothing if you can’t easily access your documents. Thanks to its proprietary touchscreen interface, QUE makes it simple to find reports, spreadsheets and presentations with just a few taps of a finger. And QUE is always on when you need it: its battery can last days, instead of hours.
QUE has integrated reviewing tools and features that maximize efficiency. Add a note and use the virtual keyboard to include your comments, highlight text, scribble free form, and even add a stamp to emphasize a point. No stylus needed. And if that massive spreadsheet with the tiny font is too small, just zoom in for a close-up view. With QUE, it’s easy to instantly go back and forth between documents.
Wireless access to leading publications, professional content on the QUE Store
The QUE Store offers a rich collection of reading material especially geared to the business professional. QUE users will be able to connect to fresh content on-the-go, on the QUE Store: to search, purchase and download wirelessly via Wi-Fi and AT&T’s 3G network².
Powered by Barnes & Noble, the QUE Store offers instant access to the world’s largest eBookstore, in addition to many business and professional newspapers, books, and periodicals. Additionally, Plastic Logic is partnering with Olive Software and premier publishers to give QUE users a richer content and reading experience that is optimized for QUE.
Today, Plastic Logic is announcing new partnerships with some of the leading business publishers and publications, including the Down Jones company and the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and All Things Digital, as well as Forbes and Fast Company. Rounding out new partnerships are the Sporting News and major regional newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, and San Jose Mercury News.
These publications join previously announced strategic partnerships with Financial Times, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, and IDG publication titles including CIO, Network World, and Computerworld. A full list of content partners can be found at PlasticLogic.com.
Publications on the QUE Store are available ranging from one-time use to ongoing subscriptions.
EXCLUSIVE: QUE truVue – Setting the standard for eNewspapers
The QUE proReader enables newspapers, magazines, and other types of content to have a richer reading experience that is symbolic of their print editions, complete with photos and formatting. The QUE truVue standard, enabled by the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, provides the familiar look and feel of print publications, and makes eReading easier and more enjoyable.
“Since our inception 27 years ago, USA TODAY has offered a reading experience that millions of people rely on and enjoy, so it’s really exciting that there is an eReader platform that delivers our content the way it’s supposed to look and feel,” said Dave Hunke, president and publisher of USA TODAY.
“Forbes has always been at the forefront of embracing and adopting new media and new platforms; eReaders represent that next generation platform to deliver our content,” said Nina La France, Vice President Consumer Marketing for Forbes. “The QUE proReader caters to our audience: people who are busy, active, mobile, time-starved, and consume content at a great clip. The proReader gives them the full content experience and new capabilities to stay ahead.”
The QUE starts here
Beginning today, preorders for the QUE proReader may be placed at the QUE Store. Beginning in mid-April 2010, QUE will be available for shipping. Later in 2010, QUE will be available through the Barnes & Noble stores nationwide and online at Barnes & Noble.com QUE.com.
The price for QUE will range from $649.00 for the 4GB QUE model with WiFi that holds up to 35,000 documents, to $799.00 for the 8GB QUE model with WiFi and 3G that holds up to 75,000 documents.
To complement its iconic look and profile, Plastic Logic has also designed an entire line of QUE premium accessories, including three carrying cases to match any busy lifestyle. In addition to their classic elegance, the cases protect your QUE from dust, scratches and everyday wear and tear. QUE accessories are available on the QUE store at QUE.com.
Additional information, including high resolution images, are available at PlasticLogic.com.
About Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic’s mission is to lead a revolution in the way people acquire, organize and consume information. We are using our proprietary technology leadership in plastic electronics to create a range of innovative products. Our first product, QUE™, the proReader for business professionals, will enter the marketplace in 2010. Founded in 2000 by researchers out of the Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory, Plastic Logic has research and development in Cambridge, England; high-volume, state-of-the-art manufacturing in Dresden, Germany; and executive management, product engineering, sales and marketing headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about Plastic Logic, please go to PlasticLogic.com.
The QUE trademark and logo are trademarks of Plastic Logic LTD. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Press Release:
Plastic Logic, Good Technology Partner
Plastic Logic and Good Technology™ partner to develop QUE Mail and QUE Calendar. | 7 January 2010
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 7, 2010 – Plastic Logic and Good Technology™ today announced a partnership and plans to develop QUE Mail and QUE Calendar for the QUE™ (pronounced “Q”) proReader. More than an eReader, QUE is designed specifically to provide a premium reading experience and access to content anywhere anytime, while simplifying the multi-faceted lifestyle of business professionals – and to literally lighten their workload.
The announcement coincides with Plastic Logic’s debut of QUE today during CES 2010. The ultra-thin, lightweight and wirelessly-enabled QUE is the size of an 8.5 x 11-inch pad of paper, about 1/3 inch thick, and weighs about a pound. QUE stands out in a crowd because it’s a business reader. QUE also distinguishes itself with powerful tools for interacting with and managing content. In addition to hightly valued business and professional newspapers, periodicals, and eBooks, QUE supports reading and annotating document formats business users need (including PDF files, Microsoft Office, ePub documents and more). With the QUE software, it’s easy to quickly transfer content from your PC, Mac® computer, or BlackBerry® smartphone to your QUE.
Plastic Logic said it plans to develop and offer a rich QUE Mail and QUE Calendar service with Good Technology, a leading provider of collaboration, security, and management services for leading mobile device platforms. Initially based on the Good Mobile Email™ and Good Mobile Exchange Access™ components of the Good for You™ solution, the QUE offering will be expanded in the future to include the Good for Enterprise™ solution. The QUE Mail and QUE Calendar offering will provide un-tethered email and calendar updates from a variety of popular email services for business professionals, including Microsoft Exchange.
Good for You, the solution powering QUE Mail and QUE Calendar, delivers an exceptional, integrated user experience for mobile email on the most popular mobile device platforms, including Android, Symbian S60 v3.0, Windows Mobile, BREW and Java. The four components of Good for You — Good Mobile Email, Good Mobile Exchange Access, Good Mobile Portal and Good Mobile Social Networking — work together to give mobile device makers and mobile operators a flexible and extensible white label solution that enables truly differentiated offerings and delivers a great mobile experience to end users.
By integrating with Good for You, the planned QUE Mail and QUE Calendar services enable mobile professionals to have email and calendar updates from a broad range of popular email and calendaring services, including Yahoo!, Google, Windows Live, and Microsoft Exchange, automatically pushed directly to their QUE devices over Wi-Fi and 3G networks.
“We are extremely pleased to be working with Good Technology, a leader in mobile device services, to accelerate development of a world-class email and calendar service and experience for the QUE proReader,” said Plastic Logic CEO Richard Archuleta. “Good is a trusted brand for mobile professionals and gives us a strong foundation for expansion into the enterprise, government and other verticals.”
Plastic Logic plans to offer QUE Mail and QUE Calendar services beginning Fall 2010. While plans with Good Technology initially cover the development of personal email and calendar, Archuleta said the planned roadmap for development of QUE Mail and QUE Calendar includes enterprise and government services thereafter.
“The eReader category is gaining substantial and rapid traction. As the world’s first proReader, QUE has great potential as a mobile collaboration and communications tool and is a perfect fit for the Good for You and Good for Enterprise solutions,” said Good CEO, Brian A. Bogosian. “We are very excited to be working with Plastic Logic to deliver an exceptional QUE Mail and QUE Calendar experience that we know will delight its customers.”
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Monday January 4, 2010
January 4, 2010
Replacement for UW-ACE is on the way
UW architects represent Canada in Venice
'Snow at sunrise' captured just before the holiday break by the digital camera of drama and speech communication student Reemah Khalid.
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Replacement for UW-ACE is on the way
by Andrea Chappell of information systems and technology
Sometime over the next couple of years UW will be required to replace Angel, the software that forms the basis of UW-ACE. Angel Learning Inc. was sold to Blackboard Inc., the purveyor of the Blackboard learning management system, in early summer 2009, and we have learned that Angel will disappear as a product, with some of its features being merged into Blackboard’s LMS. This LMS is sufficiently different from Angel that a move will be a significant change for UW-ACE users. A project to select a new LMS is underway.
We are well positioned for the move, and attractive options exist. A group of people representing Information Systems and Technologies, the Centre for Extended Learning (distance education), the Centre for Teaching Excellence, the library, and the faculty had already been reviewing UW-ACE. In April, before Blackboard’s acquisition of Angel, this team concluded that UW should continue to use Angel.
It was also recommended that UW augment UW-ACE with other tools for live interaction, and with better math tools. In particular, the project recommended that UW investigate a web conferencing and collaboration application, server storage, delivery of audio and video, integration of the library’s e-reserves called Atlas Ares into Angel, and integration with Maplesoft’s Maple TA. The integration of Atlas Ares is complete; the other add-ons are in various stages of review.
The LMS Selection Project team has identified important scenarios for the next LMS to support. The team also has a known list of candidates that includes two commercial products, Blackboard and Desire2Learn (a Kitchener-based company), and two open source products, Moodle and Sakai. A Request for Proposals may reveal other candidates.
In the 2010 winter term the project team will provide updates on the LMS Selection Project. The first phase of the project will conclude with a recommendation to the University Committee on Information Systems & Technology to pilot a very short list of learning management systems in order to finalize a selection.
While Blackboard has promised support of Angel until 2014, we are aware that as other institutions move away from Angel, its support may degrade. A critical element in any selection is the migration to the next LMS — how efficiently UW will be able to move courses from UW-ACE to the next LMS.
While the replacement process is underway, we continue to support and evolve our courses on UW-ACE. Use of Angel has grown from 200 courses in fall 2004 to about 1,250 this past fall. Taking into consideration combined sections and “held with” courses, upwards of 70% of courses are in UW-ACE. Instructors use UW-ACE in a variety of ways: to augment in-class sessions, to blend on-campus teaching with online components, or to teach fully online.
UW-ACE has an operations team comprised of staff from IST, Extended Learning, CTE, and the Library. UW-ACE Ops meets once a month to discuss directions, determine significant system settings, work on policies, and decide what communications should go to the user community.
Other current developments:
• An Angel upgrade (from V7.3 to V7.4) is planned for April 2010. This upgrade keeps us in an appropriate support window. There are few big changes, the most important of which is a requirement to move from what are called Quizzes to Assessments. All of the fully online courses have made this switch. We will provide support for other courses in the change by setting up training sessions next term.
• Angel officially supports two browsers, Internet Explorer 7 or 8, and Firefox 2 or 3. Others work for many functions; however a few activities, such as file uploads, do not work in non-supported browsers. We now have in place an upload blocker for non-supported browsers to prevent confusion and problems for drop-box uploads.
• A system check, performed as a person goes to the UW-ACE login page, makes sure that settings on the client system are appropriate for functions on UW-ACE. A message indicates what areas pass or fail, and points to a page to get any needed help.
• New this fall, the Library’s Atlas Ares e-reserves integration allows the instructor to embed a link to course e-reserves into the course, and allows the student to access them without another login required.
• Turnitin (plagiarism detection) and Wimba (voice recordings) can be used in UW-ACE without additional login. Marks are automatically loaded from Turnitin. The iClicker results can also be integrated into UW-ACE for marks purposes.
Here’s what happens with ACE as a new term starts:
• Class rosters are activated on the first day of classes, and student access to previous term classes is disabled.
• To use course materials in a new term offering, materials are copied into a new course instance created for that term. (Course materials refer to the course content that the instructor puts on the course site, but not the student results.)
• All course data, including student uploads and results, are retained in UW-ACE for 3 terms after the end of the course (the year in which a student can register a course appeal; also, the year in which most courses are re-offered).
• All course materials, including student data, are removed from UW-ACE three terms (one year) after the course has ended. Course materials (that is, the course content that the instructor puts on the course site, but not the student results) are archived outside of UW-ACE at the end of the course term of offer, and kept for three additional years. (While we retain the course material archive, because the software changes over that time, pulling this material back into UW-ACE cannot be guaranteed for the full three years.)
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UW architects represent Canada in Venice
The Canada Council for the Arts made it official just before the holidays with an announcement that that “Hylozoic Ground,” a project developed “in collaboration with” the UW School of Architecture, has been selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture. The Biennale, which is the world’s most prestigious architectural exhibition, will take place in Venice from September through November 2010.
Three UW people are behind the project: architecture professor Philip Beesley; Andrew Hunter; curator of Render, the UW gallery; and Rob Gorbet, faculty member in electrical and computer engineering. The lead agency is PBAI, Beesley’s private architectural practice.
Says Gorbet: “Hylozoic Ground is an experimental responsive architectural environment which explores the changing relationship between buildings and their occupants, with a view towards creating a more empathic experience. Relying on a network of dozens of distributed embedded controllers, sensors, and hundreds of specialized, silent shape-memory alloy based actuators distributed among a crystalline meshwork manufactured from laser-cut acrylic, it creates an experience for occupants of the space which is variously described as everything from ‘gentle and soothing’ to ‘aggressive, creepy and anxiety-making’.
“In fact, one of the current directions of this work is to research coding languages for the investigation of emotion-correlated motion so that we can consider the design of the environment and its responses to the occupant, in order to intentionally modulate or induce specific emotional responses.”
He notes that a previous work in the series, Hylozoic Soil, was first exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2007 and later at Siggraph 2009, and won first prize at the international VIDA 11.0 competition in Madrid earlier this year. The related work Hylozoic Grove is permanently installed in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future in Linz, Austria, and variations leading up to the Venice project are planned for Québec City and Mexico City. “A related project by Philip, Sargasso Field, is currently on display at the Copenhagen Climate Summit,” Gorbet said.
As described by the Canada Council in a news release, “Hylozoic Ground” is “a uniquely Canadian experimental architecture that explores qualities of contemporary wilderness. The project will transform the Canadian Pavilion in Venice with an immersive environment composed of a network of interactive mechanical fronds, filters and whiskers that senses and responds to its human occupants. Arrays of touch sensors and actuators create a breathing motion, intended to draw visitors into the shimmering depths of a forest of light. The project builds upon the interdisciplinary work of PBAI and collaborators, combining innovative research within architecture, engineering and sculpture. The exhibition is intended to tour a number of Canadian galleries following the installation in Venice.”
“Hylozoic Ground” was selected in consultation with an independent assessment committee which commented that “the project proposes to be a unique response to the Biennale, treating it as a speculative laboratory for architectural experimentation.”
The Canada Council for the Arts and Royal Architecture Institute of Canada are working together to provide financial support and assist with project oversight for Canada’s architectural representation in Venice.
CAR
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As the winter term begins
It's back to the office and back to the classroom today . . .
Residence move-in
Class schedule
Important academic dates
Pick up OSAP funding
Library hours
Recreation facilities
Bookstore hours
Parking permits
Food services hours
Influenza update
Link of the day
World Hypnotism Day
When and where
Feds Used Books, Student Life Centre, open Monday-Friday 8:30 to 5:30 this week, Saturday 9 to 5.
Music auditions today: Chapel choir 3:00 to 6:00, Conrad Grebel UC chapel. Stage band 6:00 to 9:00, Grebel great hall. Instrumental chamber ensembles 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., Grebel room 1302. Details.
UW senate executive committee 3:30, Needles Hall room 3004.
Engineering exchange students, welcome for new arrivals, Tuesday 11:30, Carl Pollock Hall room 3602.
University Choir first rehearsal Tuesday 7:00, Conrad Grebel UC great hall. No formal audition required. Details.
International student orientation Wednesday 12:00 to 3:00, Needles Hall room 1116. Details.
Weight Watchers at Work winter series begins Wednesday 12 noon, Humanities room 373; call ext. 32218 to register.
New student orientation Wednesday 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., Student Life Centre lower atrium.
Return-to-campus interviews for co-op students January 6-8, Tatham Centre.
Auditions for FASS 2010 January 6, 7, 8, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., Hagey Hall room 119. Details.
Baden-Württemberg and Rhône-Alpes exchange programs information session Thursday 3:00, Needles Hall room 1116.
School of Pharmacy White Coat Ceremony welcoming new students, Thursday 5:00, Humanities Theatre.
Math business and accounting programs information session about the CFA, PRM and CFP designations, Thursday 5:30 p.m., Math and Computer room 4020.
Comedian Jon LaJoie at Humanities Theatre, Friday 7:30 p.m.
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December 23 Daily Bulletin
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