From 693deabb6c01deb84369c47171c532cfec249995 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Melanson <pj2melan@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:48:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added rmann, ehashman, fem101 talks to media

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     CD or DVD should you so choose.
     <ul class="media">
 
-<mediaitem title="SAMS - Seminars and More Seminars">
+<mediaitem title="Feminism in STEM - a 101 Panel">
   <abstract>
     <p>
-      Four talks on a range of CS-related topics.
-      <br />
-      Theo Belaire will talk about his experience developing modules for the Linux kernel
-      in the Rust programming language, and its pitfalls.
-      <br />
-      Bryan Coutts will talk about the weighted closest neighbour problem, which has
-      important applications in finding not only the nearest pizza place, but the fastest
-      pizza place.
-      <br />
-      Richard Ye will talk about a few important design principles to keep in mind
-      when making web UIs, or any UIs in general.
-      <br />
-      Tristan Hume will talk about his experience using binary forms of data communication,
-      and a sample protocol for binary communication.
+      A panel organized by the CS Club on how feminism manifests itself in STEM,
+      specifically CS and Engineering.
+
+      Panelists are Dr. Prabhakar Ragde, Swetha Kulandaivelan, and Filzah Nasir.
+      Moderated by Fatema Boxwala.
+
+      Due to battery trouble, the first few minutes of audio were lost. The panelists
+      were introduced as Prabhakar from the School of Computer Science, Swetha from
+      4A Mechanical Engineering, and Filzah as an Engineering grad student.
+
+      Sample questions from the panel section are:
+      <ul>
+        <li>Filzah and Swetha, can you expand on how Engineering tries to keep its curriculum grounded in reality?</li>
+        <li>Why would an Engineering 101 instructor tell the class to design urinals?</li>
+        <li>Prabhakar, how can men in STEM help women get their voices heard?</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      Sample questions from the audience after the panel:
+      <ul>
+        <li>As a woman in CS, how do I know I wasn't hired to meet a diversity target?</li>
+        <li>Filzah, you mentioned that "getting to 50%" isn't what you're interested in. Can you expand on that?</li>
+        <li>An admittedly selfish argument I've seen on Reddit asks why we should cooperate with marginalized
+          communities when we're not significantly affected by them? (Response at 10 minutes into questions)</li>
+        <li>Prabhakar, how has CS changed since you were an undergrad?</li>
+      </ul>
     </p>
   </abstract>
-  <presentor>Theo Belaire, Ford Peprah, Tristan Hume, Richard Ye, Bryan Coutts</presentor>
-  <mediafile file="b2coutts-sams16-talk.mp4" type="Bryan Coutts Talk (x264)" />
-  <mediafile file="richardye-sams16-talk.mp4" type="Richard Ye Talk (x264)" />
-  <mediafile file="tbelaire-sams16-talk.mp4" type="Theo Belaire Talk (x264)" />
-  <mediafile file="tghume-sams16-talk.mp4" type="Tristan Hume Talk (x264)" />
-  <thumbnail file="richardye-sams16-talk-thumb-small.jpg"/>
+  <presentor>Prabhakar, Fatema, Filzah, Swetha</presentor>
+  <mediafile file="fem101-panel-discussion.mp4" type="Panel questions and discussion (mp4)" />
+  <mediafile file="fem101-questions.mp4" type="Audience questions (mp4)" />
+  <thumbnail file="fem101-questions-thumb-small.jpg"/>
+</mediaitem>
+
+<mediaitem title="Bringing OOP Best Practices to the World of Functional Programming">
+  <abstract>
+    <p>
+      I transitioned from writing software in imperative, object-oriented
+      (OO) programming languages to doing functional programming (FP)
+      full-time, and you can do it, too! In this talk, I'll make a case for
+      using FP for real-world development, cover some cases where common FP
+      language features substitute for design patterns and OOP structure,
+      and provide some examples of translating traditional OO design
+      patterns into functional code.
+    </p>
+  </abstract>
+  <presentor>Elana Hashman</presentor>
+  <mediafile file="ehashman-oop-best-practices.mp4" type="OOP Best Practices (mp4)" />
+  <thumbnail file="ehashman-oop-best-practices-thumb-small.jpg"/>
+</mediaitem>
+
+<mediaitem title="Open Source Computer Sound Measurement">
+  <abstract>
+    <p>
+      An ideal computer audio system should faithfully reproduce signals of
+      all frequencies in the audible range (20 to 20,000 cycles per second).
+      Real systems, particularly mobile devices and laptops, may still
+      produce acceptable quality, but often have a limited response,
+      particularly at the low (bass) frequencies.
+
+      Sound/acousic energy refers to time varying pressure waves in air.
+      When recording sound, the acoustic signal will be picked up by
+      microphone, which converts it to electrical signals (voltages).  The
+      signal is then digitized (analog to digital conversion) and stored as
+      a stream of numbers in a data file.  On playback the digital signal is
+      converted to an electrical signal (digital to analog conversion) and
+      finally returned as an acoustic signal by a speaker and/or headphones.
+
+      In this talk I will present open source software (Octave/Linux) to
+      measure the end-to-end frequency response of an audio system using the
+      Discrete Fourier Transform.  I will demonstrate the software using a
+      standard USB audio interface and a consumer grade omnidirectional
+      microphone.
+
+      This is joint work with John Vanderkooy, Distinguished Professor
+      Emeritus, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
+    </p>
+  </abstract>
+  <presentor>Richard Mann</presentor>
+  <mediafile file="rmann-oss-sound-measurement.mp4" type="OSS Sound Measurement (mp4)" />
+  <thumbnail file="rmann-oss-sound-measurement-thumb-small.jpg"/>
 </mediaitem>
 
 <mediaitem title="Network Infrastructure talk">