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Alumni Speak at 2005 Academic Festival
Alumni that presented at the 2005 academic festival:
- Peter Parsons (1989 BBA) from Bungie Studios spoke about the Halo 2
project.
- Shane Hall (2002) from XKL LLC.
- Nathan Berg from XKL LLC.
- Bryce Bockman (2003) from XKL LLC.
- Jacob Nelson (2000) from Amazon.com.
- Rob Rydberg
- Carter Smithart
- Kenneth Perrine from Pacific Northwest National Labs.
Alumni Speak at 2004 Academic Festival
Several CSCE alumni returned to PLU on May 1, 2004, to speak at the
academic festival.
- Jacob Nelson (2000) from XKL LLC, spoke about a FPGA
called the micro-Toad.
- Bryce Bockman (2003) from XKL LLC, gave a talk about
SNMP titled: "SNMP is not Simple."
- Shane Hall (2002) from XKL LLC, spoke about voice over
IP technologies at XKL.
- Nathan Yocom (2002) and Michael Wright (2002) spoke
about their work on their very successful pGina project, and how
it has progressed over the last couple of years.
- Keith Folsom (1985) from PLU CATS spoke about his use
of Perl and PHP for developing online services here at PLU.
- Kenneth A. Perrine (1998) from Pacific Northwest National
Labs, spoke about techniques for handling giga-pixel images on
parallel computers.
Capstone Project Gains World-Wide Use
For their capstone project, Nate Yocom (B.A. 2002) and Michael Wright
(B.A. 2002) developed a tool for
pluggable authentication schemes in the Windows operating system called
pGina. This allows Windows machines to
authenticate users through a variety of methods including LDAP, NIS, Kerberos, and
UNIX PAM. The software is now being used in computer laboratories across the country
and the world.
Nathan Yocom has also published
an article about pGina
in SysAdmin Magazine, and is the co-author of a
book
on Linux network programming.
