On Monday, January 27 2003 UPE had its first meeting of the Spring 2003
semester.  Here are the minutes from this meeting:

We discussed our plans for the upcoming semester.  As we talked about last
semester, there will be a program for high school girls.  The title of
this program will be "Divas With Keyboards - Girls Get Connected With
Computers".  This will take place on Saturday, March 29.  As it stands now
however we are getting a low response rate so will have to step up our
efforts to bring people in.

We are also having the other high school program focusing on computer
architecture.  This will be called "What's Inside".  This is scheduled for
Saturday, March 1.

We also have some pressing business we need to attend to.  First and
foremost we are going to start up a department newsletter.  During the
meeting people gave ideas for what should be in the newsletter and then we
assigned different tasks to each person.  Here is the list for what we all
signed up for:

Note from the chair - Karl
Student Awards - Emily
Internship Highlights - Mark Dane
Current Research of faculty/students - Jessie
Introduce the faculty (Prof. Komagata) - Chris
New Lab Pic - Emily
Spotlight on a student - Brian
Tech news - John and Brian
Plea for money - Dr. Knox

John Arrabito volunteered to do the layout for the newsletter.  Everyone
needs to do their work independently and then email the work to Emily at
gibson2@tcnj.edu.  Email her by next Monday.

Another event coming up is the welcome back night we are having for the
computer science students next Monday.  It will be next Monday at 8pm in
HH 253.  We are going to have food and here is what people agreed to
bring:

Emily is going to order the pizza.  The plan is to start with 4 pies.
Aaron is going to get plastic cups, paper plates, napkins, 1 bottle of
ginger ale, 2 bottles of sprite, 2 cokes, and 2 pepsi's.  Maria and Chris
are going to get snacks like chips and cookies.

We also talked about what we are doing for FACTS this semester.  The plan
is to do tutorial-like presentations.  For example if you or someone you
know is really good at PERL, ask them to come to FACTS to present.   We
also would like to have a debate during FACTS to really get our
collective computer science juices going.  We talked about a potential
operating systems debate.  In any case, we need presenters and we also
need people to host FACTS since Emily has class from 330 till 5 on 
Fridays.
If you could help out in any way, send Emily an email at gibson2@tcnj.edu