News Archive

The CSH Executive Board for the 2011 school year, elected back in April, have officially begun their terms as of June 1st. Check out the new E-Board!

In the spring of 1976, a small group of RIT students in the nascent field of Computer Science set out to form a Special Interest House based around their common goals and interests. Thirty-five years later, the spirit of learning and discovery our founders brought to this organization is alive and well, and we're celebrating the promise of many more years to come!  read more »

The December 3rd issue of RIT's student-run Reporter Magazine includes a feature article on CSH: "The House That CS Built". It's very well-done, with lots of great info for interested students, and they even got our IBM PCjr on the cover! Thanks to Brendan Cahill for writing us up and Chris Langer for the photos.

The third annual ImagineRIT Innovation and Creativity Festival is coming up on May 1st (this Saturday!), and just as in past years, we'll be putting some of our cool technical projects on display. Come over to GCCIS, or the "Computer Zone" as it's been dubbed, to see the Auto Etch-a-Sketch, our Automated Door Lock system, the Remote-Controlled Shopping Cart project, and RETALIATOR, an automated Airsoft sentry gun. We'll see you there!

Over a dozen CSH members and alumni (along with 100+ other attendees!) are gearing up for BarCamp Rochester #5, the day-long "unconference" where technically-inclined people teach each other what they know! CSH has been heavily involved with BarCamp Rochester since its inception, and is a top sponsor of this year's event. It will take place on Saturday, April 3rd, right here on RIT's campus in Building 70.  read more »

The CSH Seminar Series resumes this quarter with an interactive seminar on GNU/Hurd, presented by former CSHer Kingdon Barrett. If you're interested in installing GNU/Hurd yourself, bring your own machine (perhaps with QEMU or similar virtualization software) and follow along! We'll be back in room 70-3435 on Friday, March 26th at 4:30pm; we hope to continue the Seminar Series bi-weekly for the rest of the quarter.

With Spring break behind us, we're well into Accepted Student Open House season... and as it happens, RIT is holding two of them on Friday, March 26th and Friday, April 9th! As usual, we'll be stationed with the other Special Interest Houses on the first floor of Nathaniel Rochester Hall (Building 43) between 11am and 4pm on both days. Whether you've already applied to CSH or you're just interested in seeing what it's like, our tour guides will show you the highlights of our floor and answer any CSH or RIT-related questions you might have.

This Friday, February 12th, the CSH Seminar Series continues with Charles Profitt giving a talk on PhotoRec and Linux data recovery. Charles is the lead contact for LUGOR (Linux User Group Of Rochester) and the system administrator for one of Rochester's K-12 school districts; he has given talks at BarCamp Rochester and NYSCATE. As always, we'll be in room 70-3435 at 4:30pm.

Next up in the CSH Seminar Series: This Friday, January 29th we have Karlie Robinson talking about the history and development of Linux and open source software. Karlie is the owner of Webpath Technologies and has been a Fedora Ambassador for the past four years; she also works with the One Laptop Per Child program. As usual, we'll be in room 70-3435 at 4:30pm. See you there!

Thanks largely to the concerted poking and prodding of our Evaluations director, Mike Dumont, our book review program has been picking up some serious steam. In the past month alone our members have written 13 new reviews (bringing us up to 31 in total!), and we've expanded our lineup of publishers to include not only O'Reilly and Apress, but also Packt, Manning, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, and No Starch Press.  read more »