Hi everyone,
My name is Robert Massaioli and I am starting my third year as a CSE Co-op Computer Scientist; I am also your CSEsoc Sysadmin Head for 2010. As a result of being Sysadmin Head you’ll find me in the shadows of the K17 Basement working an keeping things running or simply improving the quality of all things sysadmin. However, I am a friendly and fun guy that is more than happy to talk; especially if it happens to be about programming problems or indeed anything computing related. The best way to contact me is via email (robertm@cse) and you should feel free to.
I have promised that should I have some interesting things to talk about over the year that I would send them into Beta to be published, so you can look forward to a small amount of my writing influence. The topics that I am likely to cover are many and varied; alot of things interest me from video games like Bioshock 2 and Diablo 3 to AI to Media Servers like FUPPES, which, completely coincidentally, I help develop. And just so you know, I speak in the same way that I write but I find that I convey meaning much more clearly when I give it verbally.
I am looking forward to the coming year; not only is there so many new concepts to learn but uni life just gets better and better. Having worked for six months I would tell you right now, without a doubt, that you should go to as many social events as you can, live uni up because it will help you decide where you want to spend your career; and more friends never hurt anyone. That is what CSEsoc is for, putting awesome people in an awesome room of awesomeness, join us and have some fun, this society was made for you after all.
But, without any further ado, here are some old Beta Issues:
βETA Issue #13, 12 May 2008 – Kappa Edition

elearning and teaching
Bioshock for PS3
NICTA Urban Vehicle Project
Trans-Atlantic Telectroscope
NEWS: Grants Removed from the 2008 Budget
Anime: Monster
CSEsoc Trivia Night Recap
NASA’s Phoenix Spacecraft Lands on Mars

βETA Issue #13, 19 May 2008 – Lambda Edition

The BlueSTAT Project
Phoenix Reveals Icy Surface
Japanese space laboratory to Space Station
Quantum Computing Comes to CSE
Matlab Workshop
Stonehenge Mystery Solved

Hey everyone!
I’m Prashant Varanasi, now in my fifth year of a Computer Science (with Co-Op) program, doing my honours thesis this year.
I’m one of the Co-Presidents for CSESoc this year, and I’ve been quite involved with Social, Sysadmin and Tech in previous years. My main goal is to make sure that CSE students are having fun, while also teaching students about new and interesting technologies. You’ll see me at many CSESoc events and meetings, and if you don’t already know me, I’m sure you’ll soon learn to recognise me by my loud voice!
βETA Issue #11, 28 April 2008 – Theta Edition

National ICT Australia teams up with the RTA to solve traffic problems
Innovation seeding grant from Apple
What would you do if you were Bill Gates?
How nerd speak is becoming more mainstream
CSE students on the Oxfam Trailwalker
Plus the usual Nuβers, Puzzles, News in Brief and more

βETA Issue #12, 5 April 2008 – Iota Edition

rUNSWift robot soccer team starts using new two legged robots
Bernhard Hengst is coming to CSE to speak about Sensing, Perception and Action in Complex Environments.
UNSW reduces semester length to twelve weeks, we ask students for opinions
Malware authors turn to EULAs to protect their work
Software that make you smarter
How pulleys work
The school of CSE at UNSW is one of the most dedicated to its students

Hi, I’m Sim Mautner and I’m going into my fourth year of Computer Science. I’m treasurer for CSESoc, and am part of the Tech Events working group. I worked on Beta last year, helping with editing and writing a couple articles. You’ll see me around at almost all CSESoc events so make sure to say hi.

Here’s issue #10 of Beta,

BETA 2008 Issue #10, 21 April 2008

iCinema – UNSW’s virtual reality system
How would you spend 100,000 on UNSW?
Student societies at CSE
Mark Zuckerberg: Hacker, Dropout, CEO
Graduate Attributes at UNSW

Hi,

My name is Belinda Teh, (most people just call me Bel), and I’m a third year Computer Science Co-op student.

I’ve mostly been in the social team for CSESoc for the past few years, helping out with events such as First Year Camp and Trivia Nights. This year, however, my main role is on the executive team as the Secretary. I do things like take minutes of meetings so we actually remembered what happened and spam people with emails till they do what they’re supposed to. I do try not to spam soc-announce though…really, I swear.

βETA issue #9, 14 April 2008

Watch and Learn – how video is changing education
GNU, Copyleft and Creative Commons
Different ways of computing: optical, quantum, DNA and others
Macs, Linux and PCs

Howdy! My name is Freddie, but people used to call me Fred. I am a 4th year Computer Engineering student. I just recently joined the team as a newbie, and my responsibility will be in the layout of βETA. The opportunity to contribute in βETA is indeed a privilege for me.

Here is the first Epsilon edition of βETA, which was published in the fourth week of 2008’s first session.

βETA issue #8, 7 April 2008

John Shepherd explains his research on a different way of searching for images and music
Real-life Gundam
Human Computer Interaction in 2020
CSE Free Services
CSE Connect
2008 April Fools’ Day for the world’s leading companies

Have a good time.

Hey everyone, I’m Sammy Ho and I am a Computer Science student. This year I’m Publicity head, as well as being a part of the Beta team among other things. As Publicity head I make sure that our advertising gets done – posters, badges, t-shirts.

I’ll also be writing a couple of things for Beta in the future so look out for them.

In the meantime, here is the next Beta issue for you:

βETA  Issue #7, 31 March 2008

Interview with Malcolm Ryan on the game development workshop
How Apple creates the creativity perception of their brand
Flower: a high level web-centric virtual machine by Thomas Lord
Brad Hall tells us Who was John Lions?
Do laptops help you learn in class?

Happy reading