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The Game of Life: From Nodes to Networks

The Game of Life: From Nodes to Networks. John Papandriopoulos. Victoria Section, Australia. The Game of Life. Created by John Conway, Princeton Mathematics Professor, in 1970 Unlike real life, there are 3 simple rules: Birth: cell with three live neighbours becomes live

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The Game of Life: From Nodes to Networks

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  1. The Game of Life: From Nodes to Networks John Papandriopoulos Victoria Section, Australia

  2. The Game of Life • Created by John Conway, Princeton Mathematics Professor, in 1970 • Unlike real life, there are 3 simple rules: • Birth: cell with three live neighbours becomes live • Survival: an alive cell with {2,3} neighbours stays alive • Death: a cell is dead in all other cases • Has real applications, for example: • Understanding seemingly complex behaviour of cells or animals • A nice model for the recent development of the IEEE Student Branches in Victoria, Australia

  3. Student Branch Nodes in Victoria We have three nodes: University of Melbourne (UniMelb) • Established 23 August 2002 • 61 Members RMIT University (RISC) • Relaunched in 2003 • 53 Members • Recent events • 1st Annual Postgraduate Conference: 27-28 Nov 2003 • Annual BBQ with over 80 attendees • Site visit to airport traffic control planned Monash University • Established in 2003 • 42 Members RMIT BBQ 2003

  4. UniMelb: Technical Events • Oct 2003: LaTeX workshop • 3½ hour intensive LaTeX crash-course • Aim was to write a mock IEEE paper by the end of the session • 18 attendees in total • CD-ROM with free LaTeX software distributed • $AU270 profit (approx. $US187) • Core committee of 4 student members

  5. UniMelb: Technical Events • May 2004: MATLAB workshop • 3 hour introduction to MATLAB with hands-on practice • The first session sold out; we ran two! • 53 attendees in total, comprising: • Students from UniMelb, RMIT Univ, Monash Univ, Victoria Univ • Engineers working in industry • $AU745 profit (approx. $US514) • Core committee of 5 student members

  6. UniMelb: Technical Events • Branch Seminars • Prof. Ezio Biglieri (IEEE fellow) “Multiple Antenna Transmission and Reception: Capacity Considerations, Signal Processing, and Space-time Code Design” • Prof. Nail Akhmediev (Australian National Univ.) “Ultra-short pulse generation in optics” • MPEG-4 streaming videos available on our website

  7. http://unimelb.ieeevic.org/ UniMelb: Competitions • R10 Website Competition • 2003: top 20% merit • 2004: second prize! • Website very important to us: • Mailing lists • IEEE information • Workshop registrations • Photos • Committee meetings • Branch news • Seminar MPEG-4 videos • Forums

  8. UniMelb: Social Events • Dec 2003: Tennis Championship • Dec 2003: Movie Night: startup.com • BBQs • Four to date: one per semester on average • Great to get the whole EE department together

  9. Moving from Nodes to a Network! • Back to The Game of Life… • … from three nodes, we’ve begun a small network, • now let’s expand the networkwithin Region 10 with your help! • We are very interested in: • Collaborative discussions • Inter-branch seminars and competitions • Cultural student branch exchange • Video-conferencing and VoIP are key technologies that are under-utilised and can help bridge the geographical gap. • People networks are crucial if we want to achieve something big!

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