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The Rust programming language was created when Graydon Hoare was frustrated with the elevator in his apartment building being out of order due to a Windows blue screen of death. In the decade since its 1.0 release, Rust has been the “most loved” programming language on StackOverflow for a number of years, and has gained a reputation for high performance (comparable to C), high productivity (comparable to Go) and correctness (comparable to Haskell). Prof. Noah Daniels has been using Rust in his research group (Algorithms for Big Data) for the past 5 years, and has been teaching an undergraduate machine organization course in Rust (previously it was in C) for about as long.Participants in this interactive workshop will start with a brief introduction to Rust (just the basics) and then look at how to easily parallelize a computation across multiple cores using the excellent Rayon library. The workshop will wrap up with multi-node distributed computation via an OpenMPI-compatible library. All the code written will made available on a website.Prof. Daniels is an associate professor of computer science, with the majority of his research focused on algorithms for “big data” — essentially, sublinear-time algorithms for problems such as search or sequence alignment, trying to leverage the manifold structure of high-dimensional data. He did a postdoc in mathematics at MIT with Bonnie Berger and a Ph.D in computer science at Tufts University with Lenore Cowen, focused on problems in computational biology ranging from protein structure prediction to biological sequence analysis. More recently, he has also been interested in applying “manifold mapping” ideas to problems in astronomy, cybersecurity, and machine learning.Zoom Registration (free): https://uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/MkwG6eIZRn6eO4tplmr4Pw#/registration There is an in person option as well.Background resources, for those who wish to get a leg up: https://www.rust-lang.org/learnThe Rayon parallelization library is documented here: https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/The mpi library is documented here: https://docs.rs/mpi/latest/mpi/

Fall Colloquium 2/8: Public education is under assault. The federal Department of Education has been bulldozed. And nearly half of states have now enacted private school voucher plans. Historian Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire, co-hosts of the education podcast Have You Heard and co-authors of The Education Wars, will discuss how we got to this moment and what we stand to lose if public schools disappear. They’ll also outline an ambitious vision of what the “public” in public education can and should mean.Jennifer Berkshire, Journalist, author, and educator whose work explores the politics of public education. Co-author of The Education Wars and co-host of the Have You Heard podcast.Jack Schneider, Education historian and UMass Amherst professor examining school quality, equity, and reform. Co-author of The Education Wars and co-host of the Have You Heard podcast.Brought to you by The URI Honors Colloquium, an annual fall lecture series hosted at URI, serves as a university-wide educational forum that’s also open to the public. The Colloquium offers presentations and discussions of emerging lively, challenging intellectual issues.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Fall Colloquium 2/8: Public education is under assault. The federal Department of Education has been bulldozed. And nearly half of states have now enacted private school voucher plans. Historian Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire, co-hosts of the education podcast Have You Heard and co-authors of The Education Wars, will discuss how we got to this moment and what we stand to lose if public schools disappear. They’ll also outline an ambitious vision of what the “public” in public education can and should mean.Jennifer Berkshire, Journalist, author, and educator whose work explores the politics of public education. Co-author of The Education Wars and co-host of the Have You Heard podcast.Jack Schneider, Education historian and UMass Amherst professor examining school quality, equity, and reform. Co-author of The Education Wars and co-host of the Have You Heard podcast.Brought to you by The URI Honors Colloquium, an annual fall lecture series hosted at URI, serves as a university-wide educational forum that’s also open to the public. The Colloquium offers presentations and discussions of emerging lively, challenging intellectual issues.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Learn about rare diseases with The National Organization for Rare Disorders! Learn about different rare diseases and spread awareness with us!!We are celebrating rare cancer day!Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Like the "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" show, contestants from the audience will compete against BOND brothers in trivia questions of varying difficultly to see if they are, smarter than a BOND brother.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.