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Stephanie Brumat (Intel)

EMEA Geography Manager for Intel Software College, Stephanie enjoys interacting with international Professors, kite-surfing on the Garda Lake and making short movies. Stephanie has a B.A in Film and Television from New York University.

Blurring the lines between science and engineering- identity crisis in Informatics?

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:16 am
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The European Computer Science Summit’s last day panel discussion went more deeply in to the subject of the conference and raised old questions and controversies among Computer scientists. Wendy Hall advocated computer scientists not to think of themselves as a 'service science' building applications to enable other sciences’ work and encouraged the audience to think [...]

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Examples of Interdisciplinary Initiatives

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:16 am
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While at ECSS 2009, I followed the track on Multi-disciplinary Curricula. The session opened with a presentation by Budapest University of Technology and Economics Professor describing a very interesting new R&D program (the Innovation and Knowledge Centre of Information Technology made up of 9 enterprises, 5 university departments,) whereby Industry and Academics were gathered in [...]

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ECSS 2009: Challenges and Opportunities in Informatics

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:15 am
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This year, 80 of the leading CS faculties, department chairs research institutes in Europe gathered in a humid Paris for the European Computer Science conference to delve into the new role Informatics should play among the sciences. Put forward this year was the need for a multidisciplinary approach uniting research, curricula as well as education. The [...]

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Category: Academic, Events, Software Engineering

Intel is preparing for Eurographics...

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on March 10, 2009 at 5:59 am
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Follow the Intel Eurographics 2009 preparations on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Intel_EG09

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Category: Academic, Events, Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Visual Computing

Looking back and forward...

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on March 4, 2009 at 6:05 am
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          While Intel ® celebrates the 1000th University Milestone worldwide, we’re proud to count among them 268 of the best universities in the Europe-Middle-East and Africa region across 44 countries.          Congratulations to Dr. Mazen Kharbutli for being our 1000th member and winning the upcoming book, The Art of Concurrency, A Thread Monkey's Guide to Writing Parallel [...]

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Summit devoted to the scientific and strategic positioning of Computer Science in Europe

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on October 7, 2008 at 6:06 am
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I will be attending this upcoming Thursday and Friday in Zurich the European Computer Science Summit 2008 . The main objective of the Summit is to examine ways in which deans, department heads, and research directors in Informatics can work together to improve teaching and research, implement the Bologna process, can influence the policies of their [...]

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ITISCE in Madrid

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on July 10, 2008 at 2:54 am
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  Just attended the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITISCE) conference in Madrid on June 30th to July 2nd.  This was a very international conference with participants from North America, Europe and even a few from as far as New Zealand.  It was hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group in [...]

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Day 7

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 23, 2008 at 4:46 am
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Streets are emptying out, students worked until late to finish their movies but everyone uloaded on time and the movies look good from what i've seen, i'll tell you more after the screening today! Hopefully the PR/Journalism students will be successful in bringing the press and filling up the screening room!! Check out the rest [...]

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Day 6

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 23, 2008 at 1:48 am
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 In order to help young filmmakers find funding for their next venture, the Festival has decided this year to set up a "Speed-Networking" space where 15 filmmakers were given the opportunity to spend 5 minutes with producers and distributors from all over the world. A unique opportunity where pitching your movie convincingly and making an impact on [...]

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Day 5

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 23, 2008 at 1:34 am
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Visual graphics are getting more and more sophisticated and each designer's touch and sensitivity is revealing itself, the level of the students is very impressive and mind-blowing compared to what we were able to do when I was a film student more than 10 years ago. As for production crews, some have discovered that they have [...]

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Day 4 at Cannes

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 23, 2008 at 1:02 am
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The ambiance is getting more and more frenetic as student crews go to shoot all over Cannes, bring back the footage to their editor all the while the motions graphics designers are laboriously crafting graphics and credits for the film which supports its message. It's interesting to see which teams are sticking to their original screenplay [...]

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Day 3 at Cannes

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 17, 2008 at 10:35 am
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Today, I helped mentor team 6 who is doing a documentary on a tattooist/tattoo-artist and capturing his impressions of the Cannes festival. I followed them on their interviews and shoots around Cannes and got to witness their inside-out knowledge of the cameras which they specifically used to create a slow-motion effect directly from the camera in order to ensure [...]

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Day 2 At Cannes

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 16, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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I painfully discovered the past two days that the Cannes Film Festival experience is as much a 'Film' experience as it is a 'French' one. So if you come here, prepare for taxi drivers who try to scam you charmingly, pickpockets who  steal your wallet before you have time to buy a 'cafe' and train strikes which [...]

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Cannes Film Festival

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on May 8, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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Look out for my posts on the Reel Ideas Studio Competition of 3-5 mins documentaries on the Cannes Film Festival coming up next week! Talk to you then...

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